Re: Cold Calling - Why is it bad?
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If you don't do it often, cold calling a raise can be very profitable if you can get away from your hand on the flop when you don't hit it.
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No, the hard part is getting away from your hand when you *do* hit it. If you cold-call with KQ and hit TP, are you ahead, or are you crushed? You pretty much have to pay the preflop raiser off now. If you cold-call with AK, why didn't you reraise? You're either dominating or a slight underdog unless your opponent has AA or KK (unlikely when you have one A and one K accounted for). All of this assumes limit, since that's normally where the advice against cold-calling comes from.
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