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two almost identical pf bb spots

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09-28-2008 , 06:52 PM

numbnuts

old hand

Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,405

two almost identical pf spots just came up, and I realized that I wasn't sure how to handle them.

Hand 1

TAG opens in CO, LP calls in sb, hero has Q3o. Call getting 5 to 1 or fold?

Hand 2

LP opens otb, LP calls in the sb, hero has K3o. Call getting 5 to 1 or fold?

Note: I would call with A3o here all day and I'm pretty sure that's correct. How low can we limbo with offsuit 3 in these spots?

09-28-2008 , 06:58 PM

milesdyson

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 23,856

Fold Both. Start calling ~Q8o and ~K6o i guess. LP open otb is probably a weird range.

09-28-2008 , 07:15 PM

Tryptamean

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Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 9,844

in hand 1 i think you can afford to be very tight with dominated offsuit hands... so i'd go so far as to only call a9o+,k9o+, but i would call A2o-A5o in either case

hand 2 i'd loosen it up a lot

09-28-2008 , 07:15 PM

Oink

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Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 10,309

Yeah fold

If your postflop edge is big and the game was rakefree I suppose you could call.

But the rake in any game below 50/100 is just gonna kill the EV of all these marginal hands.

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