[jeffnc]

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Exactly, the guy with the 43 made a marginally poor preflop call and played his hand great postflop. If this is an example of how fishy the play is, I'd find a better game.

-Michael

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Marginally poor? It was a rather large margin. Personally, I don't defend my big blind with a 3-4, even if its suited, that hand is so dominated. You gotta hit the board at least once, and hope that the button raiser in position doesn't hit at all.

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No, his play isn't bad at all, especially against you. There is one thing his hand is almost always not, and that's "dominated". And of course, heads up in a blind steal situation, catching any pair is usually enough to call down. Furthermore, you don't have to actually catch, since he is just as likely to steal this pot from you when you whiff the flop as you were to steal the blinds to begin with, so his cards might not even matter.

This hand (a blind steal) is certainly outside the realm of the vast majority of crap play anyway, since it's rare everyone will fold to the button to begin with.