Common situation here... Deep stacked (tourney or cash game) and someone else has made a standard raise.
I think we all know to call with pocket pairs, as long as we are getting 10 or 15 to 1 of implied odds (depending who you ask).
But I am interested in the other categories of calling hands, and which ones we should be calling with, both in position and out of position (like in the blinds). The common idea is that you want hands like suited connectors, and those are better than just unsuited big cards or Ax hands, but I'm not sure how to test that to find out if it's true. I've been playing around on Poker cruncher, but I'm not sure exactly the best way to test it.
For example: Do I want to know the percent of time that the hands flop "the lead" or flop something we can see, like a straight draw, or two pair etc. If I have 87s against AK and the flop comes Q97, I'm "ahead" but there's no way I can know that.
Bear in mind that I am talking about situations where you will play postflop, so I'm not just interested in equities when you see all five cards.
I hope all this makes sense.
I think we all know to call with pocket pairs, as long as we are getting 10 or 15 to 1 of implied odds (depending who you ask).
But I am interested in the other categories of calling hands, and which ones we should be calling with, both in position and out of position (like in the blinds). The common idea is that you want hands like suited connectors, and those are better than just unsuited big cards or Ax hands, but I'm not sure how to test that to find out if it's true. I've been playing around on Poker cruncher, but I'm not sure exactly the best way to test it.
For example: Do I want to know the percent of time that the hands flop "the lead" or flop something we can see, like a straight draw, or two pair etc. If I have 87s against AK and the flop comes Q97, I'm "ahead" but there's no way I can know that.
Bear in mind that I am talking about situations where you will play postflop, so I'm not just interested in equities when you see all five cards.
I hope all this makes sense.
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