[Ricky_Bobby]

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Why is it so painful for people to find their fold button here?

You're guaranteeing yourself a maximum loss of two pennies by folding. If we raise it up 4BB + 1BB for every limper, we're asking for a classic "one bad call induces 3 others" at 5NL. If we can't get this to heads up, which is so difficult to do, we're a huge underdog to take down the pot postflop OOP.

Only sure way to take this down would be to over-raise like 10-12 BB's, but even then you get passive donkeys who call because its only .55. Players dont think in relative pot size at this limit.

Fold ONE hand, come on you can do it! Silly 6max NL players. If we're playing a 500-1k hand session, I think we can find a better spot and fold one here.

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Others have said it but it should be reiterated. The purpose of raising preflop is not to make everyone fold. It seems like so many of us micro players think that it should be our goal to get people to fold hands that are worse than ours. Yes it isn't fun if the whole table calls and you whiff, but so what? You don't have to try to push it through all the way to the river just because you raised preflop.

If we are planning on playing a long session then we should be more willing to raise in spots like this because over the long run it is +EV to raise AJ. And we aren't losing just the 2 pennies when we fold. We're losing all the bets we could potentially have won on later streets.

AJo from the sb can be a pain and you don't have to raise it, but if you play decent post flop you probably should.