[roommate]

Now this is poker... no longer is it just odds... both players can think on many levels...

the pushing player can push his first decent hand in hopes that the offering player will use his fold early... so that later on with a better hand the pusher can 'force' the deal.

and obv since the offering player knows that the pusher is thinking this way would be correct to loosen his standards against that first push

but if the pusher knows his opponent is a saavy multi level thinker he will be sure to push the first time not to force the fold but rather trap him into calling

of course it follows that the offering player would be better to fold anyways just in case the pushing player realizes that his pushing will be called loosely and pushes with the goods

but, if the pushing player knows that he will fold for the aforementioned reasons he is best off pushing the first hand no matter what (blind) so that the second player is forced to a decision for all of his chips (secret of poker according to mike) and he can later appropriately push with a better hand if the offering player folds.

~rob