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Originally Posted by sierradave
If you're opening UTG with QJs and KJs, you're not playing TAG and you don't have a TAG image.
I would disagree with this. There is a big difference between playing QJo and QJs in EP. You need to play some hands that aren’t AK and PP’s from EP and sticking to the suites variety cuts down on the combos by 75%.
Now the whole point of playing them is for the implied odds of flushes, straights, trips and two pair, so in that regard I would agree they are far less valuable a hand when sitting on 100 BB’s when your goal is hitting TPTK type hands and doubling up.
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Originally Posted by sierradave
Hand 1, I can get behind firing a second barrel or checking to induce bets from weaker hands. Checking underreps your hand, betting overreps your hand. Select based on your reads of the other players.
Have to disagree with you here as well. You are basically saying nobody ever calls here with a hand worse than QJ which is simply not true. We bet small on the flop - we haven’t narrowed ranges much, and therefore we can bet moderate on the turn to get called by worse while still having good equity versus better hands.