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Originally Posted by playertee
Would you rather have J9o in this spot? My friend's argument is that K2 beats J9,which I think is totally wrong.
Others have given their own arguments for which hand they'd prefer to have. But they are not really touching on the main problem: your friend's argument is totally absurd. If he is right, it is completely by accident. You seem to know this (not surprising as I remember you were a pretty good poster when you still posted here regularly).
This reminds me of a hand I played once at 2/5 where I made a huge raise over a straddle with A8o, and someone limp/raised me for my whole stack. I called, and he had K
2
. We were all-in and my hand was ahead.
That's pretty much the only time preflop equity matters--when all or a large percentage of the stacks are going in and there is very little if anything in the way of postflop action.
The deeper the stacks are, the less it matters what your starting hand is in absolute strength and the more it matters how good your hand is at winning money postflop.
If you want to really blow a hole in your friend's logic, ask him which he'd rather have in that spot preflop: T8s or A6o. One is the equity favorite, but the other is the clear hand you'd rather have.