Re: [ba-poker] You've got to know when to fold 'em

[William Chen <wchen_8369(deleted the rest)>]

--- Ken Kubey <kubey(deleted the rest)> wrote:

> kshei007 wrote:
> > Does anyone routinely make plays that are
> *definitely* unprofitable
> > in order to increase the profitability of your
> global strategy?
> 
> Yeah.  In the $50 or $100 buy-in no-limit games, I
> pretty much
> raise with 3 hands.  AA, KK and pure trash.  
> Say two or three people limp in for 50c.  I make it
> $5 with J2o.
> They all fold.  I show J2o.  
> Next time, I make it $5 with KK.  The guy that
> limped in with 99 jams,
> I call and bust him 4 times out of 5.
> IMPORTANT!!  I don't raise with trash often.  Once
> every 2 hours or so.

The problem with that is that I don't imagine you
raise with AA or KK more often than once every two
hours either.  Raising half the time with AA or KK and
the other half with trash still sounds like a good way
to give away your money in NL.




> I think it's okay to make odd plays sometimes, but
> calling with J5s
> is not the way to go. 

But raising with it once every two hours is?  I think
you're pretty confused on how to play NL.  If you are
going to vary your play by raising with AA/KK and some
other hands, you should probably mix in the 33's
there.  If you get called you at least have a better
chance to flop a big hand.  

Think about it this way. You are going to raise with
the top 1% of your hands (AA/KK) to balance this out,
you are going to occasionally raise with weaker hands,
actually you have a choice as to which weaker hands to
raise with.  But not all weaker hands are equal.  It
would take more of a miracle fr j2 to hit a big
hand--I'm going to do it with 33 a little less than 1
in 8 times.   

Bill