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Originally Posted by MitchellC
Just because you have A-2-5 doesn't mean you are in the lead against the player showing a 6.
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Actually you are 100% for sure in the lead.
I know what you are saying - but you are saying it absolutely incorrectly.
Big difference between "advantage" and "lead"
At three cards pushing a 6/5 advantage or lead is nothing more than a gamble, regardless of the other cards on the board. There is very little chance that of the six other showing cards that they will alter your odds much, and if they do - then they alter the odds for the other person as well at this point as it would reduce the odds of that person having that value rolled up.
Pushing an 8/9 advantage is a world of difference - as odds are both of you can hit under - but that 8/9 will typically be the deciding card.
And I will go back to what I said originally - it depends on if its a tourney or a cash game.
In a tourney I can push an advantage 10 times ... win ... push it once after that ... lose ... and be hanging on for my life.
In a cash game ... losing that 11th time is just a loss, more than made up for by the previous 10 wins. Those rising stakes makes all the difference in the world in how you have to play.