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| Cold calling ITB with PP's How profitable if at all is cold calling with PP's 22-99 for example. If it can be then against what opponents can we do this and what lines can/should we take? Over a small sample my line seems to be check/call on certain boards, basically to bluff catch missed over-cards from wide button ranges. I play 6-max fwiw at 2nl. How does this affect my decision to cold call or not? I think the straight forwardness of micro players is a factor. |
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| From my experience such PP's 22-99 are easy to play after flop. This may sound .... simple and silly but if you hit trips right on the flop you continue to call ( but ofc depending on the flop, if it looks dangerous or not, say flush chances , str8 etc ) and if not it's nice to play them because they are so easy to lay down , at least they are for easy to lay down for me. I think such PP's should be played more often versus very lose and aggressive players which tend to have a very wide area of raising hands. But my first argument is the one that makes me like these pairs so much , for me they are easy to play if i hit trips and easy to fold if i dont. |
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| Playing fit or fold isn't necessarily a leak. Against your standard reg (ie someone who balances everything pretty well and is somewhat aggressive) it probably is. Against someone who's either so nitty that we can almost pure set-mine, against someone who isn't exploiting us (ie not cbetting/barreling enough) or against someone who pays off way too often, it's just fine. As usual, it depends. I generally don't fold pairs to single raises 100bb deep and it's shown a profit over my career. |
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CO/BTN ranges are too wide to expect to play for stacks when you hit. So when you hit a set you rarely get the 12:1 required to show a profit. |
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To take one extreme, imagine someone who opens %100 of their range pf, but also pots every street postflop and pays off light. Clearly we're never folding a pair pf to them. Implied odds are not found only vs nits. They're found vs aggressive regulars, bad fish, and finally, nits as well. We also don't necessarily need implied odds to play them profitably either. You get to showdown often enough in general to make flatting them just fine. Quote:
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| re: Cold calling ITB with PP's poker Quote:
Yeah the implied odds theory is something I took from our session, it's not just nits that give them to us but bad lags and extreme calling station fish to an extent. Thanks for letting me know that they do have an underlying profitability provided they are played correctly post-flop, that's basically what I was getting at. |
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