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Originally Posted by PokerWoody
wilfuiljoker said she'd been getting 'unplayable' hands like 47s, 94o etc. What we are saying is that these hands aren't necessarily unplayable. There comes a point when your stack dictates you should make a move, not your cards. In this instance she didn't lose 34 big blinds as part of a suckout, in this instance she made the bigger mistakes of blinding down, and is now wondering about a question that shouldn't really exist.
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Or yet again,
"Go back in time and don't be in the situation you're in", which is about as useless as "advice" gets.
But you have (eventually) answered the question, so: WHY is 94o x 6bb better than KK x 2bb? Realistically, the only way you're going to win with 94o is if you make everyone fold, since it's one of the shittest hands possible. So you'll get the blinds, lifting you from 6bb to 7.5bb, and achieving nothing more than buying yourself a free orbit to hopefully get better cards. BUT you risk of being called by any reasonably good sb or bb hand and almost certainly losing - remember, you're playing short stacks and big stacks, no medium ones, so either a short stack will call you with any half-decent hand out of desperation, or a big stack will call you for fun because they can afford to risk 6bb to take someone out, and either way you're 99%-certainly the underdog.
Whereas with a good hand, you might easily get one or two limpers and the sb and bb in the pot, meaning if you win you're up to 8bb or 10bb, a substantially better position. (Plus you've got some credibility for your next shove.)
Of course, there's no guarantee that you'll
get that good hand if you cling on, but the chances of getting
a hand substantially better than 94o in the 14 or 15 hands it'll take you to get from 6bb to 2bb are very high indeed.