How Do You Play A9 sOOted?

[TomBrooks]

How do you play A9 sOOted?
This is how I play it. And apparently it's not working. Maybe I ought to pop it more preflop, especially first in, like I do with ATs? Or maybe stop cold calling with it? Is A9s much different from ATs?

(Obvious from this screenshot, I just noticed my ATo is doing lousy too. Probably I'm limping with it too much.)

[atnels]

CCPF w/ A9s? Yuck. When you start getting into really loose games when there are like 4-5 cold callers and you're on the button or something, sure, but otherwise I think its an easy fold.

[Niediam]

You should know that 61 is an extremely small sample size. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

I definatly raise with it when I'm first one in from MP2 or later...

[Marquis]

What's with all the cold calling?

[aK13]

95 VPIP????????????

ATs is a raise UTG, A9s is not.

Neither is a cold calling hand, unless there are TONS of players in between.

[milesdyson]

A significant % of the times you've VPIP'd with A9s have come from coldcalling preflop. Not good. You've also coldcalled 3 times with ATo - that's really asking for trouble.

If you hold ATo and a maniac raises in front of you, you 3-bet, you don't coldcall. And ATo is not one of those hands you "coldcall after 2 or 3 coldcallers."

[Aaron W.]

Where to begin?

#1 - 9 coldcalls out of 61 times you've seen the hand? That's a good place to start looking for problems.
#2 - VPIP at 95%? That's high, probably because of #1.
#3 - Bad luck? It's probably happening, but that's not the real reason you're doing so poorly.

You should do a study of how you are actually playing these A9s hands. Are you ending up in situations where you have the worst of it? Or are you just getting outdrawn? With only 61 hands, you should be able to breeze through them in about 30 minutes. If everything looks routine, then you have a much bigger task of figuring out whether your routine is actually correct.

[bottomset]

aren't you one of the 28VPIP guys?

seriously stop coldcalling with it so much, same with ATo

[gvibes]

If a table is getting waek-tight, or playing a little short, I'll raise it UTG. As everyone else, you cold-call a disgusting amount of times.

[TripleH68]

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What's with all the cold calling?

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Only 52 hands but...

VP$IP 54%
PFR 23%
CCPF 0
bb/hand 0.21