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AidanN20
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03-03-2005, 08:34 PM
Post subject: define a cold call, and where its most commonly wrongly done
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often i hear people talk about cold calling as a very bad way to play hands..but ive never heard what they mean by cold calling...
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RiverMonkey
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Cold Calling is calling more than one small or big bet when the action comes to you.
e.g. there's a raise to two or more small bets in front of you pre-flop
e.g. there's a bet and raise in front of you on the flop, turn or river
Note that if you try to limp in pre-flop (call the big blind), and it gets raised behind you, and then you go ahead and call, that is NOT cold-calling.
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RiverMonkey
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To answer the second part of your question ... the most common cold calling mistake is probably in pre-flop situations where the cold-caller calls two bets cold with a high-carded, non-pocket-pair, off-suit hand like KTo.
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ChezJ
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Even cold calling pre-flop with a premium hand like KQs or AQ is usually a leak. Basically, if you are not the first raiser, you should usually dump your hand because you may be up against AA/KK/QQ/AK. If you have AA/KK/QQ/AK then you should re-raise not call.
Cutting the cold calling habit will save you tons of money in the long run (and short run for that matter).
ChezJ
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4-of-a-Kind
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you're basically avoiding bad situations.
someone raises before you and you have KQs. you're either coinflip vs JJ, TT, dominated by AK, AQ, or just out right drawing nearly dead vs AA/KK/QQ
that doesn't look like very good odds....
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Fnord
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At lower limits they don't raise enough pre-flop, so you should often get out of the way.
At higher limits they're raising weaker hands but you have folding equity by 3-betting a wider range of hands against them.
In either case, just calling with a hand like KQo is a big mistake.
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