Re: Hank Azaria laying down KK.....should I be impressed?
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KK is about a 4:1 underdog against AA. If you're getting 4:1 pot odds to call, you make money in the long run.
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This is the problem I have with this kind of robot thinking. As the previous poster pointed out it's fine if you are playing in a $109 MTT and will keep playing in those. The WSOP ME is a once a year event and costs $10,000 to enter. The "long run" is a statistical comparison of your entire poker career and sometimes you need to take other factors into consideration if you want to move ahead in a tournament that is so lucrative to the final 200 or so.
Also, if you know your opp has AA and you have KK then the best you can be pre-flop is 4-1 underdog and if he has your suits then it will be worse. You will know for a fact that if you don't hit the flop then your odds get even worse so I don't see how the fact that you're getting 4-1 odds on your money is that good - especially that early when survival is much more important than accumulation.
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