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Message: [QUOTE="John A, post: 2205130, member: 88730"] Good work. It's easiest if you see it for yourself of course, instead of someone else telling you X or Y doesn't tend to work. Now I don't want any misunderstandings though. Poker players tend to have big ego's, and they want to believe they can play just about any hand. However, in most micro and small stakes games, these kinds of hands will usually end up as -EV when flat called. I've coached over 100 students and about roughly 100% ;) at small stakes have -EV results for these hands. Why? It's pretty simple. They don't have initiative, and they don't make the best decisions post flop often enough to turn their hand into a +EV calling decision. Now, as you get better and you move up stakes, you're going to need to have a wider flatting range, and you'll need to know how to make these hands +EV. Believe it or not, that will happen over time. It's not really worth investing too much time into right now however, because as you move up, your opponents decisions and situational post flop plays will change a bit. For now, it's better to just mitigate your losses for these kinds of hands, play them in a way that becomes +EV, and slowly improve your game. I know a lot of training videos, and other people you hear will tell you, "don't turn X or Y into a bluff." Well, in some situation you might be doing that, in others, when you use a quasi range for example, you won't. It will be for value. So learn how to make this adjustment, and it will be on the most profitable changes you can do to your game. Don't believe me though. Look at your own results. [/QUOTE]

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