Re: is it better to fold pre-flop in an easy game w/ jacks?
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make it $40-50 to go, hoping to isolate against AK, and be willing to push the rest
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That's not optimistic enough. In this type of game, don't be surprised if you isolate J9.
In the $100 max game at Foxwoods with a $2 big blind, a player pushed in EP for $20, and was called in LP. The pusher had QT, the caller JT.
People are too quick to imagine a coinflip is going to happen. If someone has TT, people will say the opponent has AK or QJ. If someone has AK, people will say the opponent is playing 44. When people play weak hands like the nuts, don't wait for KK to get involved.
In a past SNG hand, someone trapped with 55 against a big blind who would always push against limpers. Some people said it was a bad play, just asking for a coin-flip, but it picked up a lot of dead money, and it's pretty likely for a random hand to have at least one 2, 3, 4, or 5. The big blind had 52o.
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