Re: How valuable are implied odds in stud?
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It might be helpful to decide what hands Ivey should be calling a raise with here. If not (98)A, then how about (J9)A? What about (KQ)A? (22)A? Three flushes only?
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In this situation, I call (rather than three-bet) with the following:
Three suited to the Ace
live underpairs
two broadway cards
Can't think of much else to call with, really. His two-straight-flush would catch my eye if it were completely live and I was anxious to play against someone bad, but not considering how dead the straight cards are.
If you don't have much of a hand, it makes sense that you ought to play on only with cards that have the best possibility of developing into a hand. Given the dead cards, Hero's hand is essentially unrelated rags.
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