How do you play this hand?

[Rottersod]

Did anyone get an email sent to the account you registered here with "Out of Office AutoReply: How would you play this hand?" in the subject field? It has a couple of names in it but I don't want to post them here yet.

Mods?

Edited to add: The wording of the email is a bit different from this thread but the same as the cross post in the Tournament Circuit one.

[Lottery Larry]

You REALLLLLYYY need to turn your humor meter back on... it's missing the easy ones now.


(did you miss " :P " ??)

Besides, maybe I should instead abuse someone affecting a high-n-mighty tone while posting in a forum that they rarely visit..... hmmmmm?

[Lottery Larry]

Nope. is the registering email available for those kinds of things?

[Rottersod]

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Nope. is the registering email available for those kinds of things?

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I wouldn't think it was and I don't have my prefs set to notify me so I am really stumped by this.

[pfapfap]

I understand Rot's fear of this becoming a strat forum, but I don't mind the couple of posts a month for kicks and grins. I mean, how many times can we tell people what kind of cards to buy?

Anyway, I cannot imagine a scenario where I would limp J4o on the button preflop. Fold, definitely. Raise, well, perhaps, but not because of anything having to do with the value of the cards. On the flop you have to call, but you're not happy about it. This is why you don't limp with such a hand. Poker is a game of setting yourself up for easy decisions later. Raise or fold, raise or fold, raise or fold.

But then, I like to raise. And fold. Preferrably not in the same hand if I can help it, tho'.

[Khabbi]

I agree with the other comments. Fold pre-flop.

As played, you must call this.

[Lottery Larry]

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and Home Poker aint it. Even if this was a home game, etc, this is a strict strategy post and we have plenty of forums here for those.

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One quibble- anyone think that home game strategy is a slightly different animal from "normal" strategy, in some cases?

[FireStorm]

I did in fact see your smily face, and if you were trying to be humorous, I apologize. However, I think it's fair to try and protect against another inexperienced player being run off 2p2 as so many have before, usually in Strategy forums.

I do in fact think along your lines, that home game strategy is different than elsewhere. The play is looser and the players worse by miles. Hand ranges are much wider, as ATC strategy will dominate. Therefore, in a ahand like this, if the board was JJ5, you would be considerably more likely to see K5 than anywhere else.

[TexRef]

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first player raises 70% of the pot. Big blind pushes all in. What do you do?

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Stakes and stack sizes?

[Triantafylidis]

why dont you read the post....it says all even stacks