Re: \"If you Can\'t Call a Reraise...\": Two hands where I raise in EP
Good post, I think.
Lately my play has been guided more and more by position. I know it's only one factor, but there was a line in Gordon in which he casually mentioned that he almost never finds himself playing out of position because it is such a money-losing proposition. (If I had the book handy I'd find the quote - anyone?) Not much of an answer, but yeah it is devilishly tough to play midstacked in EP at this point in the tournament.
In the hands you post: I'm raising AQs here as well, and (barring a read on the villain as a serious LAG) if I'm reraised I'm probably muttering an obscenity and folding.
99 I'm limping, but unlike AQ, I'm more than happy to call a 4-5 BB raise if it happens. The difference is that you will usually have the implied odds to hit your set if you are facing a raise, but if it is a much larger re-raise suddenly you are putting in 8-10 BB, and that makes it much harder to justify a call. (The other piece, of course, is implied odds with 99 vs. reverse implied odds with AQ - you know the deal.) If a reasonably stacked villain shoves, of course I'm folding my nines.
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