Re: At what point do you not call from the BB pre-flop?
Ray Zee had a great post several years back where he went completely against the grain and defended playing Q5o to a multiway raise in the big Blind. I don't have time to find it right now, but the gist was this:
1) Getting 10-1 how much the worst of it can you really have?
2) When you refuse to gamble in spots like this, even the bad players notice and refuse to pay you off as much as they do others. they will still give you a bet here and there when dominated, but they certainly won't just pay off with the more marginal stuff others seem to make from them. The best players know how to become one of the guys, and in turn get paid off. He went on to say that's why he and others like him walk away from great games with a ton of chips, and others simply had marginal scores.
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