
BuzzKillington
Rock Star
Silver Level
Thank you! It's amazing how you're still around after all these years.Everyone is welcome at any time. So welcome.
And yes, there's unique strategies I've talked about over the years. I only talk about what works. and what I've used that has worked. Poker is a constantly evolving theory process, and you have to understand how most players are thinking about the game, and exploit the weaknesses in their theories/tactics.
Which is why we're going to continue to focus on the new BB cold calling fade, because it's highly exploitable. Like I've said in other threads, pros advocated for a long time to fold too many hands in the BB, now pros are advocating calling too many hands. This is how poker theory always develops, from one extreme to the other. We like to look at the balanced theory that can exploit both of these extremes.
What's up with the cold calling? Why would professional poker players advocate cold calling so much? It doesn't make much sense to me. I get how every now and then the meta changes, but isn't cold calling too much bad?
I mean, I am still quite new to serious poker... but as I understand it, cold calling has the following flaws:
- You have no initiative.
- You can easily get raised unless you get to close the action.
- You have literally no fold equity. P(villain=fold) = 0. Always.
So how can it be beneficial? Especially pre-flop? Whenever I try to do it when I want to setmine with a pocket pair cheaply, it tends to backfire. So I just end up raising my pocket pairs instead. I believe it was Figaroo2 who explained this perfectly in another thread (why it makes setmining more profitable).
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