[Matt Flynn]

visualize how the hand would play out with $200 stacks and a raise to $11 preflop. same world of [censored] when your opponent has a hand too and is aggressive. it gets worse with $400 because he knows your range is heavily skewed towards AA/KK/QQ/AK.

you may still be right to play it the way you did. it depends on how often you will take down the pot on the flop plus the times opponent checks the turn given that he called the preflop raise. you gain when that happens, so if he folds the flop or checks the turn often enough, it can make up for those times when you face a tough commitment decision that will usually result in you folding. however, the preflop reraise put you in a very bad situation for handling aggression.


if your opponent is thinking and thinks of you as tight, this is an awesome preflop call for the original raiser with weaker hands. when you have position and face a blinds reraiser with those stack sizes, if he doesn't hit better than one pair, you can put him to a tough commitment decision by firing all the way. in general you want to call the flop bet then jack the turn, because people get more spunky on the flop and the blinds reraiser is more likely to commit then. this a LAG tactic that works better if your opponents don't think of you as LAG. we cover how to think about these sorts of hands in detail in PNL volume 1.