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By "brick flop" I'm assuming he means flops like 852 3 different suits or even a flop like 552. These are flops noone is likely to have hit, since most people calling raises are calling with AK, KQ, KJ, Ax etc. A flop of AK9 with two suits of the same color is definately not a brick flop, for example.

Yes you can, at least at lower limits like 100 and 200. One day while playing at Hollywood Park, I was totally card dead except for a few AA and KK hands that had me sitting with a $300 stack at 100 max buyin. Someone remarked- "Man you sure are a rock!" I said no, I haven't been getting any cards. He said "No, it's nothing to be ashamed of. That's good!" A few hands later I raised and got a couple callers. Most of these guys don't pay attention, and when they do, generally they don't care, if they have something decent they will call. They are there to gamble, not grind out a living.

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tha, thanks....

more or less what i thought about brick flop (same as raggy flop??).... but lefty made it sound like JJ getting called by ace-high on brick flop was bad. i think it's great, especially if you can be called by two players with aces (one might be drawing near-dead and if there are two aces out, that really cuts down on odds of ace coming on turn/river)... wasn't sure if lefty was advocating not playing JJ aggressively (but i may have misread or misinterpreted it).

thanks for the help!!