Just to clarify, I wasn't saying this was a 100% call (no risk!), only that it's worth considering a call. I don't think it's possible for there to be a 100% correct answer based only on the information we've been given in the OP, but I'm saying there is enough information given that I think calling or folding is a tough decision either way, and hopefully over the hands we have with this player maybe we have seen some post-flop tendencies and lines that may guide our decision.
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What realistic hands fit that criteria other than 75 oh and 87? Btw, this is assuming he call two big bets with a gs, which is possible, but I wouldnt count all the possible combos of 87 here.
I was writing quickly, but also add things like top pair hands and underpairs as well. You can probably discount those a little bit as well, of course.
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your assuming this guy is a decent/good player.
Not really, there are many types of bad. When a loose passive player takes this line I think it's almost always a strong hand that got there, but there are certainly players that are bad in the bluffy/spewy sense as well. I don't think it makes sense to say "Oh that's level 3, he is never on that level". He can be a bad player and bluff too much in these kinds of scenarios and still occasionally get into a spot where his naturally bluffy tendencies lead to a decision that looks like a higher level than it actually is. This may or may not be the case here of course, but I don't think this is a particularly useful counterargument.
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this guy just doesnt make it to the river enough here with air so he cant be bluffing anywhere near enough to make a call profitable.
This is definitely an important point. I am assuming he can make it to the river with air sometimes based on the OP. I may be inferring too much from an off-hand statement, in which case obviously it skews the results more towards a fold. I don't know whether I'm reading too much into the OP or not.
Anyway, I agree this isn't as simple as making up a range and stoving the equity, even though it clearly is, in the abstract. The whole point is to understand how we come to decide on how heavily to weight different possible holdings in his range, based on what we know from the OP and our general experience at the level. I don't have any experience at 100nl so I'm relying more heavily on the OP. I think it's pretty understandable for a uNL player to generally weight ranges for this kind of line towards big hands than bluffs in general though, given the way most uNL games play, but there are enough indicators here to at least make us consider a call, in my estimation.
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Do you call people taking this line at uNL stakes often with strong one pair hands?
No, but even at 10nl I have occasionally found a villian against whom this is a call. The trick is recognizing him when you find him.