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Originally Posted by Lego05
55 doesn't seem like a good 4betting hand in general to me.
--When called will usually have very little equity on the flop (while occasionally having a lot).
--Doesn't have a blocker to premiums.
--It might actually be close to our being supposed to call a 5bet shove, depending on sizings and opponent's range, and if fold is good, we still created a situation where we put a bunch of money in and have to fold a pocket pair when our opponent has AK/AQ maybe 40% of the time (this is more thinking for when stacks are around 100 big blinds deep - I'm not as used to playing 320 big blinds deep).
Well part of my reasoning is that it is going to be hard to play 55 post flop unless we flop a set regardless, lots of over cards are going to come out and we will most likely end up playing a guessing game.
True we dont have blockers, but at least we have an easy game plan when called... just set mine and move on.
As to your point about calling it off, were 300 bbs deep, we can easily get away if villain 5 bets.
But the big thing here is that I expect villain to fold a majority of the time, and when he does continue we isolate ourselves vs a strong range we can get paid if we flop a set.
