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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor
99 is a very very small favorite over Q-10 suited. If you know someone is a horrible player then you push big edges against them, you don't gamble with small ones.
The original poster lost his cool and pushed with 99 not because he thought it was a monster hand, but because he was sick of seeing the donkey raise with crap and make people fold...so he thought he'd push him off the hand.
Alot of people seem to forget you can only make good players fold.
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He had fold equity and about an 80% chance of having the best hand even in the event of a donkey call. He did the right thing. You build your stack by punishing bad players, not by waiting until you have a straight flush to make a bet.
I'm not saying 99 is infallible, I'm saying that online the better hand gets busted a fuck of a lot more than it does at the Bellagio.