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You’re not getting what i’m saying. If someone calls your all in, they have a set or 2 pair. doesn’t matter how often it happens, when you do it you are beat period. Therefore you make no money on worse hands, and you get beat by better hands = -EV
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Did you even read my post? I just said you are a 42% to win the hand against anything that calls your AI flop bet. I never said they flopped a FH or Quads as it would be impossible for you to have a SFD on those boards. You have no fold equity versus 2 pair or sets. Nobody folds a set on the flop, sorry it just don’t happen unless is an obvious straight or flush flop. Open up pokerstove and do the ranges yourself if you don’t believe me. I never said fold, if you get 1.5:1 or better is instacall
While sets will usually never fold, The odds of them having a Set or better at the same time you have a Straight Flush draw are so slim you’d be an idiot to ever be scared of it or to not get all your money in.
Same as you can’t be scared of Set over Set, it’s no different. Get your money in.
And how often are you going to be up against a 42% range that beats you WHEN you flop a Straight Flush draw and play it strong?
Wet Staight flush flops ARE the very flops you normally will hit Einstein, that’s why you have a lot of fold equity. Against all 2 pair and low sets, All one pair hands. and any drawing hand i.e most of a players range.
Straight Flushes are a monster draw against any player and any range. Never play it weakly.
So what? How often are they going to have a Set or better at the exact same time?
All 2 Pair, 1 pair and draws are an underdog to a Straight Flush draw. The chances of you being up against a Set or better are no worse then Set over Set and when do you fold that?
Is folding Set over Set +EV in your playbook too?
Poker Listings have an large article on this i suggest you read, most pro’s know this. Is Phil Gordon an idiot too?
By the way you CAN Flop Quads and a Full house Against a Straight Flush Draw which you said was impossible, genius.
Flop: Jc Js 10s
Player 1: Straight flush draw: Ks Qs
Player 2: Quads: Jh Jd
Player 3: Full House: 10h 10c
How often do you get a Straight Flush draw, and at the SAME time the opponent Flops a Quad or Full House? You can even get some tight players to fold a set in this spot.
Even if they go all in that does NOT mean that is the hand they have, many players are aggressive today.
The vast vast majority of the time you are ahead of everything, And most of the time you will be the one with the fold Equity or a high likelyhood of hitting.
Quit playing Scared poker when the odds are in your favour.
If you think players only call All in with Top 2 pair or better, I’d like to be on that predictable table.
I regularly see players Go all in with a Pair of Kings, Queens and Aces on the Flop at $5-$10 on Full Tilt for 1k. So don’t give me that.
So most poker literature, Phil Gordon, All the greats like Ivey and Chris Ferguson who helped Phil edit this play in his book by the way,
All of them are wrong, thanks to you,
The great Mr Poker Stove.