Join Date: May 2012
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I would never min raise a spot like this unless I had the nuts where villian couldn’t improve to beat my hand and I wanted to lock in a call and thought a min raise was best way to do this (idk min raises are just so ugh- normally you should only do it with super nutty hands as villian has correct odds to call min raise unless they have a pure bluff which you don’t want them to fold).
I would call flop. What does a min raise accomplish? If villian has 2 spades- you are in trouble. If villian has j8 like you said, you are in trouble. If villian has a straight draw with a spade or some sort of combo, you are in trouble and giving villian easy odds to call and stack you if you can’t get away.
As played, I like the pre flop sizing, I hate the flop min raise. Turn call is standard. River fold is standard.
Ok but don’t min raise flop- it’s so bad. You allow villian to play correctly and make the hand easy when you min raise for villian. If sb is bad, you can exploit raise to 4-4.5 bb pre here- aka if they are going to call way too often here in this spot, I would exploit bet bigger with top end of range. Sometimes it’s hard to gauge how fishy someone is if you haven’t played with them but some folks will call way too often in a sb limp spot so you can exploit bet a tad bigger to like 4 bb and just juice the pot up when you have a massive range advantage. 3.5 bb is fine though in this spot- just make sure you are going bigger if sb is a splashier person that will call far too often. J8 to me is a tad too loose to call from sb here but I might be wrong- maybe j8s but j8o I might just sigh fold to 3.5bb? I think j9o is a call but idk about j8o. Maybe j8o is a call but j7o is a fold?
