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Originally Posted by brandoncla
It is if you know what your doing. All you have to do is get someone to stack off to you 1 time and it makes it profitable. It also makes it instantly profitable if you don't want to look like the only nit at the table folding for $1. You make this fold and your killing your own action.
I know you said you retired from this thread, but in the off-chance you're still following it, would you mind explaining this part for us noobs/nits? How often can you expect to stack someone with 72o in a
limped pot, considering that the only "big" hands we ever make with it are crappy two pair, crappy trip, or a crappy boat. Only in the 3rd case are you at all likely to win someone's stack. You're also likely to get stacked by a better boat.
Then there are all the times we hit our "small blind special", try to build a big pot with it (putting our fishy customer on just top pair, lolz), and end up losing when the fish hits his kicker. Oh, then there's the times where we start building the pot, only to figure out that, whoops, the action suggests we're second best after all (it takes us longer to find this out on average because, oh that's right, we're in the worst position at the table). Unless of course you're just indiscriminately stacking off with your 2-pair or trips every time, regardless of the action. That's just compounding your preflop mistake by making a much bigger one postflop.
So again, please explain to us how the big pots we win with 72o (or 92o, or K4o for that matter) make up for all the times we check-fold,
and all the times we hit two pair or better and still end up losing.