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I believe you have the correct idea here. Obviously, villain is NOT likely to have a Top 10% hand.
I don't know whose video you were watching. Here's my guess on the thought process. This person is trying to demonstrate using correct pot odds to determine when to limp a mediocre hand from the SB. If he compares his hands to the Top 24% of hands, he's effectively overestimating villain's strengths or undervaluing his own hand. Either way, it's a conservative estimate. If the Stove says we have enough equity (barely) to continue, we know it's a conservative estimate and we can confidently join the action.
Of course, everything in poker is read-dependent, so we'd obviously avoid LAGG's and maniacs in the BB. But if the BB is tight, using this estimate for pot odds is both conservative and reasonable.
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