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All of these apply in every position minus #1. Which is why I said its easy to fold post flop if you miss. I think with the ranges I put everyone on hero was around 16% equity to win pf. How much does hero have to win to make this play break even/profitable? $2/$3?
The times you don't get to see all 5 board cards make your equity preflop much less relevant. A similar example would be AK v QQ that sees a flop. We might be close to a flip, but we don't get to see the turn/river often enough for it to matter so much.
This is a great point that I don't think gets made enough. It also applies to hands like small pocket pairs. When evaluating how to play your hand preflop, you have to take into account not only the likelihood that you will have the best hand, but also the likelihood that you will be able to see a showdown with your hand when it is best.
Well in other forms of poker it's not always that big of a deal, like take Razz for instance.