Re: Live Straddle
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worst play in poker, if youre serious about winning money its the dumbest thing you can do.
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That's absurd - are you just a rock?
There are several reasons to straddle:
1) Stir things up on the table - if a table is dead tight, a straddle can jolt it into action, greatly increasing pot size and profit margins.
2) Skipping UTG. Valuable in NL - allows you to act last PF, see flops you wouldn't otherwise, and conceal certain hands.
3) Affects your table image which can be used for deception.
4) Grows pot size without growing rake. This makes the stakes higher, but you don't have the extra rake collected in higher stakes games. This means effective rake reduction.
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