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I don't know what kind of explanation you want for preflop. T4s is a bad hand

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I didn't want any preflop explanation, really, since I figured no one who give a decent explanation.

I'm a little surprised by the black and white nature of some of the replies to this thread. I guess that just shows that I haven't been posting much since the forum has always been that way on complicated issues now that I think about it.

T4s is 46% vs. a random hand and that's all shaun had even after raising my complete (which I expected in advance for reasons he has mentioned in his posts). What am I supposed to do 3-handed with the short stack and the strong opponent to my immediate left? Just play plain vanilla and hope the cards come save me?

I chose to set up a play for later but then actually hit more than I had hoped for on the turn (oesd + flush) and overthought the thing and messed it up. Granted, I could have had the pot on the flop if I used the standard line, but check-call and lead are both reasonable lines that can occasionally be used on the flop.

I played the flop suboptimally and then butchered the turn, but I posted it anyway bc I thought it would be instructive for some readers.

But the preflop play is fine. "T4s is a bad hand" is not a valid reason for not playing a HU pot, which is basically what you're doing BvB three-handed.

Later,
Che