Quality problem

Originally Posted by supa

Understanding when to fold small pps when we're getting clear odds to setmine is completely elusive to me. But I remember someone (Oscar I think) saying a long time ago that tags won't stack off to a set often enough to make it profitable. So maybe when our sole read is 'tag' then that's a good place to start folding these hands. Thoughts anybody?

Hmm...just $.50 to call w/ ~$23.50 behind, so 47:1 odds? I'm calling w/ 55 here, even oop. If he's so TAGGY he'll fold to pressure when he has an overpair, we can play 55 profitably postflop (or break-even, at least, oop) even when we don't flop the set or better. I think small pp's are a group of hands we can profitably include in our range in this spot, unless 25NL has changed dramatically in recent times.

Originally Posted by Robb

Hmm...just $.50 to call w/ ~$23.50 behind, so 47:1 odds? I'm calling w/ 55 here, even oop. If he's so TAGGY he'll fold to pressure when he has an overpair, we can play 55 profitably postflop (or break-even, at least, oop) even when we don't flop the set or better. I think small pp's are a group of hands we can profitably include in our range in this spot, unless 25NL has changed dramatically in recent times.

Just to extend from this. If he is super tight then setmining or donk bluffing turn/rivers when he Xs back is going to be fine. If he is really loose then our 55 is going to be doing pretty well in the first place and if we can navigate well postflop when we don't flop a set then it should still be a fine cold call. The more loose and aggro the villain though the more difficult it becomes to play small pairs OOP obviously. I'd expect calling this hand OOP for a lot you though to be a losing play even at 25NL the looser the villain becomes.