Early hand in the Party 500k

[mlagoo]

also i want to address this fold preflop nonsense.

when sklansky says in his books, fold preflop to a raise with AJ, its because he assumes the people reading his book are beginners, and he doesnt think its +EV for a beginner to be mixed up postflop with a potentially dominated hand.

that being said, if you go your whole poker "career" folding potentially dominated hands, a) poker is going to be really boring, and b) you are going to be leaving a hell of a lot of chips on the table.

everyone says sklansky's books are the bible to playing perfect poker. that's just not true. they are made to try to prevent you from playing too much poker when you first start out, because you'll probably [censored] it up*. there's a reason why you'll see ted forrest call a raise in LP with QTo. it's not because ted forrest is a donkey.

* Disclaimer: I'm not all that good at poker either.