Professional No-Limit Hold 'em Volume 1 Review Thread

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Amulet:

Assume you have JTs or A5s. Everyone has 500 in a 5-5 NL game. You are in middle position. UTG limps. UTG+1 limps. You decide to limp.

The player behind you makes it 30 to go. The button calls. The BB calls. The 2 early limpers call. There is 160 in the pot, and it is 25 to call. A call by you closes the action.

What do you do?

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So you type in an example of a hand where pot/implied odds dominate the problem to prove what?


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My question was for Amulet. If you don't understand the significance of the question, I'll explain it after Amulet responds.

As for other factors being important in NLHE aside from SPR, of course that is true. Mehta and Flynn don't disagree. And it is truer the deeper you get where standard preflop bet sizing cannot manipulate SPRs into single digits.

But, stack size/implied odds (ie how deep you are) is probably one of the 2 most importants issue at 50-200xBB stacks (with position as the other). Mehta and Flynn introduce a "new" way to think about stack sizes with SPR. New in the sense it has never been expressly written about. So, they devote half of Vol 1 to it. Big deal. It's crucial information.