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Poker Coaching with Jonathan Little: Playing Pocket Jacks

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In a $1,000 buy-in live event with blinds at 200/400 with a 50 ante, a tight-aggressive young player raised to 900 out of his 20,000 effective stack from second position and another young European player who I had no read on called from the cutoff. Everyone else folded to me in the big blind with . I decided to call.

Poker Coaching with Jonathan Little: Playing Pocket Jacks 101

I much prefer calling to three-betting in this situation, because if I three-bet and get action, I will have to play what will often be a marginal hand in a bloated pot from out of position.