Quote Originally Posted by poker_pup
Quote Originally Posted by Robb
I'm willing to stack off most times with 2 pair (70% maybe) . I'm often willing to stack off with TPTK or an overpair that's QQ or better (maybe 30%).
I will seldom stack off with anything less than three of a kind, and when I do it's based almost entirely on my read on the villian. I'm a fairly aggressive bettor and the villians reactions to my bets USUALLY let me know when I'm beat with any less than three of a kind.
Of course, stacking off is about reads, the board, stack sizes and image, among other considerations. But if you're playing microstakes and not stacking off with overpairs, TPTK and TP2K at least some of the time, you're not actually making reads. You're playing scared money, imo.

Examples from yesterday's 1.8k hand session of 10nl 6max (all of them require an LoL and a note):
1. I called an all-in 3bet preflop with KK, villain shows down 55.
2. I called an all-in flop rr on a squirrelly villain w/ KQ on a Qxx board (he was about 65bb stack at that point). He shows down QT - not suited, not connected to a draw - I hadn't been maniac loose or agro - nothing. Just lost his mind and fired an all-in rr with top pair no kicker.
3. I rr'd a preflop 3bet all-in w/ AA, got called down by T2s, and the board comes J8739 to make his straight on the river. It stung for a half a second until I just started laughing and shaking my head. He's a donator. I just hope he last long enough to donate a coupla stacks to me!
The above are all from memory, and just from yesterday. I could come up with dozens more - here's a few...
4. I played big pots of 50bb+ where the board didn't help either player with KK over QQ, JJ over 99, and got 99 in under TT. I had AA against AK on a K-high board. In all of these hands, villains put in raises that had me thinking long and hard about folding, worried about sets or big draws that might have come in.

With villains like this firing all-in bets preflop and moving in on the flop, why wouldn't I be willing to stack off with TP2K like example 2? Or play for half my stack with an underpair to the board? If you're watching the showdowns that occur at your tables, you should be able to see some amazing crap get shown after all-ins or "hero" calls of all-ins. It doesn't take a soul reader to find plenty of places to push TPTK 3 value bets deep into a hand, which is pretty much the whole stack, or to call a turn rr all-in. If you don't like shoving all the chips to the middle with QQ on a 9-high board, maybe consider playing pinochle instead.