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Join Date: Feb 2009
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I didn't have any read on this guy-- he was there maybe 5 hands. But I would think the generic range for calling the pre-flop raise is going to be that segment of the player's 3-betting range consisting of (1) overcards and (2) hands that hit at least a piece of the flop or some sort of draw.
As for implied odds, this is the slowplay debate all over again. If you hit your big hand, you want lots of people in the pot, especially at lower limits. That's how you get paid off.
If your raise drives everyone out, fine, you win the hand with an unmade hand, and that's fine. But if you thin the field, that is the worst of all possible worlds with a big draw, because now you will still lose the hand if you miss and are less likely to be paid off when you hit.
If you are drawing, you either want everyone to fold or you want everyone to call. Bets that pay decent pot odds but which cut your eventual payoff on later streets when the bets are doubled are going to be negative EV a lot of the time unless they have significant fold equity. There is no exact science here, and PokerStove is like a bikini-- it shows you a lot, but it doesn't show you everything.
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