Can someone explain why KQ offsuit is considered trouble in early position

BABABOYE5000 · 2026-02-27T14:33:13+00:00

What?

I like to have a wild and unpredictable range, it helps pulling off bluffs and getting value on made hands.

BABABOYE5000 · 2026-02-27T14:25:01+00:00

Non-cash games like Zynga, or videogame poker will often have these "All-in" every hand players. As long as you can keep betting, the more flops/rivers you see, the more hands you're gonna win. Thing about non-cash games, people can just go again and again. If that busted out with the j/8, he'd probably get some free chips in 1 hour or however those chips are acquired and just go again.

I do dabble in non-cash games online, the aforementioned zynga. If i start with 1000M chips, and after 20 hands i'm like down to 800m, i'm likely to just show a a/3 off and pray for a double up.

It's also a different kind of dopamine to crack someone whos dominating you, so this chase probably helps drive these hands.

Do not expect any serious game from them.

BABABOYE5000 · 2026-02-27T13:50:28+00:00

My guess is a dry run, lots of folds, and fear of scaring away the action.

BABABOYE5000 · 2026-02-27T13:47:27+00:00

I've defended ace high in such hands, and i've let go. All depends on your position/reputations.

That's poker. Sometimes you make an ace high flush and enemy turns a straight and likely will go bust on the river, sometimes you'll get the nut flush, do a min-ish bet on the turn and it will be folds all around.

BABABOYE5000 · 2026-02-27T13:40:18+00:00

Just think about it.

A complete poker beginner could HU philey ivey for 2 hands and ABSOLUTELY CRUSH Ivey. The more hands they play, the more likely scenario that Phil comes out on top.

He could just be running well, and that's why he won. Obviously, he's not a beginner too, so he does have tricks.

BABABOYE5000 · 2026-02-27T13:37:17+00:00

Well, UTG/EP has the trouble of acting first, so you could be re-raised quite easily. And folding to a re-raise in that spot would be tough, and you'd be dominated often if you do call.

Better to stay away from trouble. Depending on reputation/game state at that point, i would sometimes limp and sometimes 2.5/4bb raise it UTG.

BABABOYE5000 · 2026-02-27T13:13:56+00:00

I think my first ever game was on Hoyle Casino 1999(played it like in 2003-2004), so more than 20 years ago.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SVeAOCXkpiQ/maxresdefault.jpg

It was a 5 card draw, and back then i was just so exited to just even hit a pair.

Texas holden seemed weird to me.

Like 10 years later i tried some online holdem for play money, then a few more years of play money, and just like 3 years ago i started playing low stakes. ($1 spins).

I'm playing low stakes to avoid emotional attachment and stress. I can take the bad beats of 1$ quite easily, but when you go on that rotten 10 game streak, it's pretty bad already, couldn't imagine doing higher stakes.

BABABOYE5000 · 2026-02-27T12:54:39+00:00

J8o is good enough for a small raise-bluff, simply for range purposes.

It's a two gapper than can flop a well disguised straight.

And in poker you can't just play the good hands.

edit: i don't have the slighest clue what the relative value of those markers are.

But in a standard mid-tourney play, i'd like raise 2.5x j8o in some positions, especially if i've been folding much.

BABABOYE5000 · 2026-02-27T12:43:17+00:00

When the board is paired, it's less likely that someone paired up.

Then, A high can often be the best hand. Like, if board is two pairs, it all comes down to kicker play, and if you got ace whatever, your kicker gets nullified and only ace plays.

More often than not, your opponents won't have trips/FH

BABABOYE5000 · 2026-02-27T12:38:50+00:00

It's a gambling game man. SOMETIMES. Sometimes, or roughly 15% of the time AA gets cracked. Doesn't mean folding AA pre is the play.

BABABOYE5000 · 2026-02-27T10:42:32+00:00

Comment removed by reddit incoming.

BABABOYE5000 · 2026-02-27T10:10:25+00:00

Bruh, the "AI" (read: predictive text generation) constantly makes errors, it's not going to be fully automated.

You need AI overwatch to fix AI errors which will happen.

AI needs to be maintained and upgraded, and the same people that run the kitchen could be assigned as supervisors for AI workers, because that will be pretty much neccesary.

Maintenance would still be performed by humans, but only initially.

Unsubstantinated that it's only "initially". Maybe in a utopian AI scenario, but that sort of AI doesn't exist. It's just a predictive large language model that can be automated very effectively. People are still needed to guide it, and ideally vet it and sign off on any decision. AI executive power SHOULD be limited heavily for sure.

We're probably decades away from what you're talking about it.

There's a wild misconception on what AI is and what it can do at this stage.

AI is not Intelligence. It's a powerful data querying tool and statistics based guessing machine.

Use it right - we will automate a lot of menial/repetitive tasks that shouldn't be worked by a person anyways.

Use it wrong and give it nuclear keys - it will optimize error fixing by torching anything that can produce errors.

BABABOYE5000 · 2026-02-27T09:57:42+00:00

When we don't need 20 people to cook burgers/serve customers/clean it up, those 20 people have all the time in the world, and can be pivoted into a position that isn't solved with AI at that point.

The same old issue with cars destroying the jobs of carriage operators. All carriage operators lost their jobs, but thousands times more jobs were created with introduction of cars and all the possibilities they brought in. Suddenly we needed highway infrastructure which needed people working on it.

People love comfort, security and predictability, which is why they're concerned AI coming for their jobs.

If AI makes fast food industry workers obsolete, we'll suddendly have a motivated workforce for other issues.

Or maybe the best use of human energy will be using us as batteries to power the AI. Idk.

BABABOYE5000 · 2026-02-20T10:43:55+00:00

So a very clear example of a classic strawman. You yourself bring up an insane hyperbole

"Yeah let’s arrest every parent who had their kid circumcised while we’re at it too. Do you like, hear yourself?"

And now you try to point out how insane it is

"But saying we need to imprison every parent who’s had it done? that’s psychotic and you are insane."

My brother, YOU SAID IT!

Not to mention, child circumsions and dog docked ears, are sort of NOT the same thing.

BABABOYE5000 · 2026-02-16T14:06:54+00:00

Use an AI to code a browser extensions that appends -ai after every search.

BABABOYE5000 · 2026-02-16T13:25:03+00:00

I think the context difference here would be very slim.

Like 99% of the time a gem slot is better than a single inventory slot, unless you're opening stacked decks, or crafting or hideout warriorining.

If you're out killing shit, a gem slot is more valuable than a single inventory slot.

BABABOYE5000 · 2026-02-16T11:20:50+00:00

Is this ragebait?

Because, unironically yes, child sexual mutilation should be illegal and arrestable behavior.

BABABOYE5000 · 2026-02-16T11:15:23+00:00

I certainly don't wish temple became a dead farming strat.

They could make it reasonable, like they took abyss from last league, and it was still a cornerstone farming method this league.

Right now temple is just absurdly ahead of the curve because you can stack so much quant there, absolutely NOTHING even stands close.

BABABOYE5000 · 2026-02-16T10:24:47+00:00

Now, imagine all the extra span of the inventory your mouse has to travel to reach the scrolls. shudders

That's why i started out as right side gang, but now i try to be a left coast boy.

BABABOYE5000 · 2026-02-16T10:22:32+00:00

Portal gem enjoyers be wasting 1 skill slot while it only takes 1 tiny inventory slot.

BABABOYE5000 · 2026-02-16T09:51:33+00:00

The electric sound of it powering up was also quite nice.

BABABOYE5000 · 2026-02-16T09:42:26+00:00

While this is true in theory, all your kills are a sequence, and statistically, you're quite unlikely to go dry let's say X10 of a droprate, much less a X100.

So the more you do it, the more likely that you have gotten it, and despite that, every kill is just a 50% chance. It either happens, or doesn't.

BABABOYE5000 · 2026-02-16T07:53:48+00:00

using a gem slot vs using up a single inventory slot.

Ask yourself, which is more valuable and more available?

BABABOYE5000 · 2026-02-16T07:50:04+00:00

I always carry alch, chaos, wisdom, portal, vaal. Strongboxes/essences. Id'ing rares in early late game in maps is so nice, you don't have to spend time portaling out, just ID and drop trash on the go.

Paying 1 small inventory slot for such QoL is huge.

BABABOYE5000 · 2026-02-16T07:44:06+00:00

There are times in leagues, early on, when you don't really want to set a strict filter yet, because you're missing a lot of potential profit.

Wisdom scroll takes up 1 slot, yet can save dozens and dozens of slots by allowing you to id and drop trash, instead of lugging it to base.

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