Quote:
Originally Posted by Aaron Bartley
I'm not sure where he's going with on the odds part, though. If I cold call and it folds to the BB, he is getting 5.5:1 odds on his call. Therefore, if he feels he has higher than 18% equity in the hand, he has to call.
|
Aaron,
You are making the same fundamental mathematical mistake that many poker players make. As a matter of fact, this mistake is standard in most poker literature. If the betting stopped at this point you would be right, but it doesn't.
This type of thinking would have you never folding a hand in the big blind preflop to one raise in any form of Omaha and rarely folding a hand in the big blind to a small preflop raise in hold'em. Think about it a while and you will see that your odds are going to lessen as the hand goes on.
Barry