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Originally Posted by phunkphish
There was previously a hand posted here where villain 3bs preflop. Flop comes 9 high, we have 99. Flop goes 5 bets. Turn is an ace, we bet and villain raises or 3b or 4b or something. It is really really easy to say, "Pot is big, at least call down". It is really easy to say "Pot is big, we have set, at least call down". But if you want to be a complete poker player, you need to do all three things mentioned at the beginning of my post. If your analysis says that villain virtually always has AA here, then you fold turn, and calling down could be a sizeable mistake.
I kinda of disagree, not because you call down and loose that it is a mistake.
If you take a GTO approach, there is a minimim of a calling range you need.
If the hand you call with is a loser it still might be right to call base on your range.
Maybe you made a mistake in a exploitable sense that because his a nit , you did not shrink your calling range enough, but this is imo "very subjectif analysis" and not reliable on a lot factors ( opponent might be tilting, low hands sample, he might try to change his play for w.e reason, etc.).
So i do not mind make some "loose call" that you might consider a mistake ( based on exploitable motives) if my hand is strong enough vs any normal opponent WHEN the pot is big .
I just think in big pot, the risk of making a mistake cost too much for applying exploitable concept instead of some GTO calling range.
So yeah, never folding a set for example in big pot ( unless under very special circumstances , like 4flush card with a bet and a raise before me , that might never happened) is fine for me , no matter the line of villain chooses.
But obv. this situation is not even close in the hand we speak of here, disregarding villain action on the turn.
Give me some small to medium size pot and i agree with you but for me, the size of the pot dictate a lot more my strategy than the range of my opponent ..
Last edited by Montrealcorp; 09-20-2015 at 06:42 PM.
