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Originally Posted by Redsoxnets5
I love how "Typical Donkalicious Hands" has become stories about "clipping" guys for more of their chips until they don't play hands with you and then bust anyway... I'll give a typical hand instead of just being a whiner.
Do you have a reading comprehension problem? I didn't make that post to "whine", as you claim. Here is the statement I was replying to: "I disagree, because you have to play nitter when it costs a lot more to see a flop. When the entire table is opening to 8BB, you can no longer play hands like 55 or 87s because it gets too expensive to see a flop".
This previous post is making a dogmatic statement that you can't play hands like ( 5,5 ) or ( 8,7 - suited ) if "the entire table is opening to 8BB". Yes, it becomes more expensive to call, but you should still call if the return on your investment compensates. If the play is +EV, then it's +EV and should be made on that basis, not "oh no, someone made it 8BB so I should throw away these pocket fives".
The other point I was trying to make, and it's really the same as yours, is that your opponents are usually thinking in terms of absolute value. My vil made a high flush (third nuts he should not have played at all) and led $50 into a $300 pot. Now, when it comes to filling the tank of your SUV, or taking the kids to the local zoo or amusement park, $50 is quite a lot. That's how they think: it's $50; it's "a lot". They don't consider how miniscule that is in relation to the pot and stack sizes. Therefore: easy call.
Isn't that the point of your vil who called $12 with ( 9,T-off )? It's just $12 --
maybe a quarter tank of gas (depending on where you live -- it might be less) without regard to how much that really was in relation to what he had in front of him? Or obviously the possibility it just might get a lot more expensive to see a flop?