5-5NL exremely deep short handed

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the key when playing shorthanded is not to call with more crap hands OOP (I'm looking at you, Ax), it's to raise a lot in position and RERAISE more preflop to make it tougher on your opponents

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I agree...that's why I said A7 warrants at least a call. Reraising a lot and making it tough on your opponents definitely goes in the "get involved in a lot of pots with marginal hands and trust your postflop play to win with relatively weaker holdings" category.

FWIW, in position I think A7 is not that bad a hand to just call with shorthanded against a very aggressive player. OOP it's normally a reraise unless he's been slowing down post-flop when called in which case I might call sometimes with Ax.