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Originally Posted by Sol Reader
I'm flattered you say so, but I think skill edge aside, a bigger part of this is realizing that if you raise 99 and get called 4 way, you don't need to win it that high a % of the time to make the preflop raise +EV. Many players raise 99, go 5 way, lose maybe 50% or even 75% of the time, and go "wow raising 99 sucks", when reality that's already a very nice winrate when you're talking about 5 way flop..
I have come around that raising this particular spot given the conditions is probably the most +EV play. That being said, I don't believe 99 is necessarily an auto-raise at these stack depths in super soft games where players will stack off with one pair type hands. Deeper stacks and I definitely raise.
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Originally Posted by Playbig2000
this isn't the beginner's forum.
It isn't the beginner's forum, but it is a beginner's forum. I'd estimate that over 95% of the players at this level have a very rudimentary understanding of the game.
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Originally Posted by Playbig2000
We shouldn't advise to limp with upper medium pocket pairs only because most readers are not high level players. There are a lot of people who are either there or want to be there, so the advice should be what is the best way to play the hand, and limping with an upper med PP is, as you previously suggested to do, what only a weak player would do.
Obviously we should always play fully stacked, but if we're not, that doesn't mean we should be limping everything, just because there are a couple good players in the game.
Skill level matters. It matters in regards to which hands we can profitably play, how we can play those hands, and even whether or not we should be playing fully stacked (whether that be 50bbs, 100bbs, 200bbs, or 500bbs).