Is losing to quads/straight flushes just cost of business?
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 289
I'm sure it depends on the runout. But in beginner terms, I'm guessing that like the advice I've seen to play pocket kings as if they're pocket aces (and just chalk it up to the cost of doing business when you do run in to aces), it's more +EV to assume your opponent doesn't have the absolute nuts than it is to overcompensate the vast majority of the time they do not.
Join Date: Apr 2021
Posts: 38
lol i'm never folding KK preflop unless its a satty. Same goes with AA I may even fold that preflop if its a satty and depending on stack sizes. cash games or normal mtts never folding either preflop.
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 3,621
Like you said, it depends.
Over compensating is never good.
You probably do want to adjust a bit in these spots, but the possibility of quads or a straight flush has never slowed me down.
Join Date: Dec 2012
Posts: 313
In cash games and MTTs that aren't sattys you really can't dodge big hands when you're holding a big enough hand relative to the starting stack sizes. The deeper you get the more likely it is that you can get away from someone holding the nuts when you've got the second nut. But truthfully is still almost impossible and if you're playing that deep then you are going to lose more money anyway because it's going to cost the money to get enough info to fold.
Join Date: Jul 2020
Posts: 58
100%, That's why Poker is a game to view "In the long run" as opposed to "Daily". I play primarily Cash Games myself and a good percentage of the time I'm usually willing to get it in with QQ's, KK's, AA's. It depends on how it plays out, as everything is a decision to be made at the time, but I'm expecting my value to be + in the long run. If my opponent gets Quads, or a Straight Flush and I get subjected to the forces of the infamous "Bad Beat", then so be it. I usually send a congrats their way, as the likeliness of getting those hands is quite rare. As long as you're playing solid Poker, when you get sniped by Quads or a Straight Flush, it shouldn't affect your overall that much. "Daily", it might suck big time, "In the long run", it's just a small percentage.
You can get dealt Bad Beats, You can also give Bad Beats.
