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Originally Posted by Pasterbator
By "big hand" we mean a hand better than AK I'm assuming.
The bolded sentence confuses me bc I think we might be arguing about terminology rather than actual theory.
Do you agree that KT = AK on the river?
I am not saying to snapcall the river with AK. Fold can certainly be better in some situations, but there cannot be a reason that you are folding KT but calling with AK because he will not show up with a hand between those two.
The reason I call with AK and fold KT sometimes is to have an optimal call/fold frequency. If we decide AK is good enough for a call, and reason that it is equivalent to some other hands, then we will end up just calling all those hands every time, and become too loose. This is easier to deal with than calling everything, then dealing with the dynamics.
I'm not talking about this hand in particular, and I've read a few great threads in which balancing is theoretically important, yet against almost all opponents when we come across a certain spot, operating in a vacuum is generally optimal.
Maybe this approach just helps me? I'm open to being wrong or at least recognizing an easier way to think.
Also, cftw:
"I didn't say I'd want to 5-bet 45 on this flop--I said I'd RATHER 5-bet 45 to 4275 instead of AK. Obviously I'd jam 45 if I were to 5-bet it, but I would not be in this spot with 45 anyway."
I neglected to clarify this; basically what you said is what I believed you thought, and I wasn't directing the "bet/call draws sucks" at you.