Can you ever get away from this?

[pembo]

3-3 is rarely ever ahead, or at least the best you'll get is a coinflip.

In cash, it's maybe an option to call, set mining is profitable there, but it MTT (especially near the bubble) low PPs are weak. Fold them every time. Why risk an average stack on such a marginal hand? Especially considering there is a bet and call in such early positions.

Anyone saying they should be seeing the flop here can come play with me anyday.

[sleepingtom]

i'd fold or shove pre. never fold river as played.

[tjm8]

[The Dean]

You wouldn't even make this call given the stack sizes in most cash games. With only 25bb in a ring game then you would be playing a short stack anyway which doesnt really mean calling raises from other short stacks with pocket threes that are 8.3-1 to flop a set. With odds like that then you need fold equity in cash games as well most of the time or you need to be the aggressor. But calling off 10% as a caller pre-flop when you will likely have to fold to a c-bet is spewing IMO.

You would be getting even smaller implied odds from regs in most TAG games.
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