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 Originally Posted by griffey24
I love the Mississippi straddle. I'm sure it's still -EV, though there have to be some significant merits to acting last pre and having position the rest of the way. I don't know how to estimate the EV of that situation, but I would never do a regular straddle, but would contemplate a Mississippi if I wanted to liven it up.
Fixed the HJ thing.
As for Mississippi straddle, getting position on the blinds isn't really THAT valuable live. In raised pots, they never 3b without a very good hand, and in limped pots, they're in auto complete/check option mode.
I don't think finding out whether the blinds have aces or not before we commit money is worth the straddle, especially because we're not finding out before we commit money; we actually have to be first to commit money. Also, what's awesome about having the button in 1/2NL is that you're generally 150bb's+ deep against a few of the players at the table, pots are usually multi-way, everyone sucks, so you're put in a ton of massive eV situations. Straddling basically turns it into a 1-2-4 game, which cuts into stack depth, which given your position and the skill level at the game, can be a huge advantage.
So even if a not-so-bad scenario happens, like you have K7s and it limps to you on the straddle, it woulda been all the better if you coulda had K7s and had it limp to you for $2 'cause now you have the option of risking half as much to get surely more than half the reward, or you can iso with more behind to own whoever limp/calls.
But I'm open to discussion on this one.
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