Quote Originally Posted by tyrn
There's still 4 people left to act behind, and ATo is a dominated hand. Easy to get in way too deep with a loser, or have to lay it down to a 3-bet. I'd play it from button but that's about it. There's enough other opportunities at micro stakes to forgo playing these marginal hands while still making lots of profit. If I was playing players that actually noticed how I was playing, I might play these to balance my range. Since I'm not, I gladly only play my strong hands and bet for value.
Playing A10o only from the BU is way too tight imo. Micros make hands like A10 even more playable from the CO and MP3 and here's why.

1. We wont get 3 bet light very often at all so don't have to worry about being blown off our hand much preflop.

2. People will call us with worse hands and play passively post flop - so at stationy or passive tables we can open it for value and are missing out on a ton of value if we open fold it on the CO.

3. People play badly post flop in general at micros so if we do end up dominated it will be relatively easy to gauge where we're at and lose the minimum. Of course if you always go broke with A,10 on A 7 3r then hell yeah fold it on the CO until you fix this, but I'm guessing you don't.

I'd play this hand the same way and call river, we have awesome odds and are least ahead sometimes here. Calling the minraise preflop is mandatory with almost any 2 cards if villain has a decent stack behind. We turn our hand into an implied odds - hit hard or fold type of holding. So, we aren't looking to flop top pair (although this may be good) we're looking to make trips and stack his overpair or make a straight to stack his set etc etc.

Villain is making a horrible mistake with this minraise so call it and play perfectly against it imo. Folding preflop to the min raise is just failing to exploit an obvious leak.