common situation that i f'ed up royally

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fold preflop

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i guess ignore preflop unless you don't think it's bad

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fwiw if i knew how to play this game i think i could turn a profit with this hand. i know i'm completely clueless in NL, but i sense a lack of creativity around here.

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I agree that creativity is important, but playing suited connectors out of position is not profitable for even the best of players. True at this level you may beable to turn a small profit but once you more to where your opponents are decent playing crap like this out of position is going to cost you alot. On the button, a call is still marginal but defenitly something that I would do on occasion to mix up my game. I think you may underestimate the value of position in no limit holdem.

Edit: Didn't see that it was a minraise, but hopefully you can apply my comments to a 3xBB+ raise and gain something from them. I also fold to a min raise OOP unless I have a good read on my opponent, but calling a minraise would be ok if he had a fullstack, but short it just isn't going to be profitable.