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Dominated Hands in early position, how do you play them?

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  1. #1

    Default Dominated Hands in early position, how do you play them?

    8-10 player table, you have AQo, KQo or AJo in early postion on an unopened pot with no limpers in front of you. What do you do?

    My current playbook:
    AQ & KQ: Raise, fold to any respectable re-raise.
    AJ: Limp, fold if raised by more than the minimum. Jack is a weak top pair and 3rd best kicker is too weak to have out of position. At a tight or preflop-aggressive table I'll flat out pass.

    KJ & QJ are easy folds.

    All my raises are to at least 3x BB.
  2. #2
    if you are at a table with limpers, I have been experimenting with using AJo and even KJ for a small information raise (2BB). This punishes those who play marginal or junk hands, and can sometimes elicit an overthetop for 5-6x BB from the high pairs and slicks.
  3. #3
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    My standard is to fold KQo,AJo in UTG,UTG+1, UTG+2 depending on the table. I open AQo for a raise from all positions. I raise KQs, and AJs from all positions also.
  4. #4
    Over 4 years between replies. Has to be close to a record?
  5. #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aces
    Over 4 years between replies. Has to be close to a record?
    Guess I misclicked to the wrong page ldo
  6. #6
    my FR broadway cards play in early positions:
    AQo : fold UTG and raise from any other positions
    KQs, AJs+ : raise from any positions
    AJ0, KQo : fold UTG, UTG1
    KJ & QJ : fold UTG,UTG1, MP1 and raise sooted from MP2
  7. #7
    Different era, bad bump.

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