Join Date: Jul 2006
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I don't straddle (you're not going to convince me that voluntarily putting in money blind preflop is overall +EV).
I also just see a flop.
SPR is 8ish on the flop against the villain. I find bottom two pair a little tricky and I mostly play it fairly passively not looking to stack off in multiway limped pots cuz if someone is willing to stack off against us we're mostly behind unless up against a moron.
But flop is tricky. Guy could just be leading an Ace, and other guy could be on a draw. But then again guy looks like he knows his ****. I think we have to make up our mind right now if we're committed or not (and it's not an easy answer). If we feel committed, then I would commit by offering poor 2:1 odds to chase and raise to $115, which will setup a turn shove. If we don't feel committed, I would flat and see what happens on the turn.
The preflop straddle looks innocent enough. But it's gotten ourselves into a really poor spot because of (a) lowering the SPR significantly where we're sorta facing commitment decisions early on when we likely don't want to (instead of giving us a big SPR where we can play poker in position over all streets) and (b) it's gotten us into a pot with a junk hand that isn't exactly easy to play even if it hits.
On the turn, the main draw got there plus some other stuff plus it's possible we were behind anyways plus there's not really any busted draws that could be bluffing this. I was feeling committed, but I fold on this card.
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