jasonbling36 wrote:yeah im the same (going a bit off topic but) if you can balance your range throughout your session especially in 6-max you are definetly going to get paid off on those big hands. opening with 8-10 suited from utg is probably a -ev play if you get a caller but if you happen to show down with a hand like this be it win or lose with it your opponants are defintely going to want to play more hands with you and pay you off more and will keep them guessing by doing so creating a greater +ev in the long run, when you do open with or play with monster hands, which is of course our goal financially speaking
yeah i definitely open pretty much all suited connectors and 1 gappers from every position, and will 3bet these a lot too. it is great for the image when you stack someone with T8hh, because they almost certainly stack off with JJ pre next time, even though we never get it in worse than this.