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Originally Posted by zoogenhiem
whereas if you had 66Axx, you want to make aces up, not eights up or whatever.
On the face of it that seems significantly advantageous, but if you get spotted doing this with any frequency you won't get paid off in these situations when you start being aggressive.
That's because when you do this it's very obvious what you have.
What is better is to draw 3 and play poker with whatever you get dealt on the draw. If you think you're going to struggle to make those good decisions when you draw a mid or low two pair for example, maybe it is a fold pre. In single raised pots it's not generally profitable to come in for a call with a small pair anyway.
FTR I didn't advocate "drawing 2 with trips only"; rather i advocated not drawing 2 ever, except some very very specific situations where for example it is capped pre and you have something like 22234. you're going to need to improve. That comes up very rarely, and yeah it's unbalanced and easy to read, but typically in those spots your opponent is not keen on folding (usually will have 333+ and pats there) at any point, so you might as well draw as many as possible to beat him to exploit his unwillingness to fold when you make your hand.
Last edited by LUCIUS VARENUS; 04-18-2017 at 08:43 AM.