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Old 01-30-2006, 04:39 PM
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With 66 against multiple callers I don't raise. Especially this early in a tourney. I want to see a cheap flop either paired with a low card or two high cards with a big juicy 6 in it. Hitting a set is most of the equity of this hand. The raise prices you out. If you call, you conceal your monster if it hits and if not you can bow out cheaply. Your raise got you in trouble. You raise, get reraised, and then you probably felt like you were getting bullied off the pot and wouldn't tolerate it. There is no room for your ego in poker.

66 is a marginal hand. You are too often dominated.

Since the other chap went all in, I'd want to have AKs or QQ+ to even risk calling this early in a tourney. The upside is a double up, the downside is being first out and feeling like a chump.
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