Cold calling preflop.....

Of all the paint cards that's playable in N/L holdem what are the combination of hands that constitutes cold calling a raise? Over the past 3 weeks I've reconstructed my gameplay and not colding calling with what paint cards i think that are easily dominated. When i say I don't cold call with easily dominated hands when there is a raise, I'm talking about mucking hands like J10s, J9s, Q10s, QJs, A10s ,K10, KJ, KQ and so on (Do you guys agree??). I took this gameplay on my trip to Vegas last week and I felt like I was in control of the table everytime. I played the $200 n/l tables and crushed it. I played 3 nights for about 6 hours each night and made a total profit of $1300. So if i'm not calling with these hands, then what am I calling with?? I think you guys already know what they are. :wink:

NLHE is all about pairs...

Fold all your hands that play like shit to a preflop raise, call with pairs or suited connected junk, reraise your big hands like AK and the big pairs and the occasional suited connector here and there.

Or something like that.

I'll admit that people put too much emphasis on preflop play, but it's not exactly as simple as people make it out to be, especially with so many variables to consider.

Hands that are easily dominated by the raiser's range should be mucked, seems pretty simple...

NLHE is all about people...

Most Live players are really terrible and easy to read.

I was walking over to the 9/18 table when I saw this $500 NLHE ($10 BB) hand:

2 limpers, reasonable player with 2-2.5 or so buy-in raises to $60 or so, limpers call because they didn't make the 30min drive to fold purdy hands to aggressive players in position.

Flop is 335r

Checked to reasonable player who bets $120, limper shoves his full rack of chips into the pot (with rack) plus about a stack on top of that and gives the PFR a mean looking "I dare you" stare. Come fucking on, this is straight out of Caro!

weak is strong, strong is weak

paint cards suck
play trash