1-for-4?

[Nate.]

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Nate,

I think the preflop play is absolutely horrible. If you do some basic equities on your hand vs. 2 random hands (given that the two coldcallers don't have great hands but you can't eliminate some "premiums" either) then your equity isn't horrible, but once you consider that you still have several people left to act, your average equity goes down quite a bit.

I think you'll be getting yourself in a lot more trouble raising than you would be by folding, and I don't think it's particularly close given your position and the fact that you still have to win the hand, even when you manage to get some folds behind you.

Rob

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Rob --

Yeah, I think this is about right. I was hoping for people to have something to say about the flop or turn, but I don't think that there's too much to say about either of them, and anyhow, the money I'd win or lose by, say, folding the flop is probably insignificant compared to the expectation I lost by not folding preflop.

Amusing side-note: the guy right behind me claimed to have folded a king. Yikes.

Thanks for tolerating this thread, everyone.

--Nate