effective stacks play the key role in top pair hand. Not many ppl are brave enough to fold over pair, TPTK & tpgk hand when terrible short stacks raise or push over on the flop.
Originally Posted by Ash256
I don't think you get it. When our opponent raises us we don't actually have a good hand anymore - our equity vs. his range is crappy. Relative hand strength means a lot and if the idea of mucking TPGK is scary you need to work on your game. I was tempted to write about playing back when we know he's giving us shit but that'd be a long nonsensical mess to read.
mrhappy, I definitely agree it's read dependent, but we don't gain reads for a while and against unknowns fold is a much much better default than call/reevaluate/stack off/whatever.
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