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Originally Posted by Evil Empire36
A cbet here on this board were getting called by 1010 plus.
On the second point Villain calling ak aq is fine. Aq we're way ahead. AK we have position.
jj and QQ we still have the turn when we check the flop on bad boards to improve. Idk. Just seems spewy to me to fire off our stack when we miss the flop that badly.
You're right, a cbet has no fold equity versus TT+. We probably don't have any fold equity versus AK, either. That's kinda one of the main points as to why I think the preflop play is losing so much. The other point is that we probably don't get paid by TT-QQ on A or K-hi flops.
On the first point though: We're a 42% preflop dog versus the villain's range. If we can never take an aggressive action to get villain to fold off his equity, then all we've accomplished by the min-raise is make the pot slightly bigger when we're an equity dog.
Making the pot bigger when we're behind is BAD if we can't get at least some fold equity preflop or some fold equity later in the hand. Worse still: Villain can force us to fold OUR equity, as shown in this hand. So we won't even get to realize that measly 42%, necessarily.
Last edited by ChaosInEquilibrium; 03-31-2022 at 03:46 AM.