Thread: A Preflop Quiz
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Old 05-09-2007, 09:14 PM
Xhad Xhad is offline
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Default Re: A Preflop Quiz

The problem with including hands 5-7 on a quiz like this is that these quizzes are meant to give you the "starting hand chart" answer for situations like this, while these are the types of situations where hand charts are at their worst. Especially since it changes from game to game. At .50/1 I practically never blind steal with hands like 57s, and I wouldn't do it against skilled blinds who defend a lot, but at 3/6 where even a lot of the best players are nits and not tricky enough postflop, I would steal with that and maybe even worse. And I'd actually rather have 79s than A3o in that A3o hand, if the raiser is the type that's going to make me work to get to a showdown (if he always gives up on the flop or turn with no pair then A3o is better).

In fact, given the right reads I could see any of the three options on all 3 hands, except I can't come up with a read that says to fold hand 7 unless it's "I'm the fish here and need to move to another table."
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