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If you don't like the advice then give some instead of covering all the bases.

You cover the shorties precisely so that you reduce the restealing when they come in. It's a bet of 4x the BB... maybe you prefer minraising...

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Not sure where this came from, seeing as how I did give advice... and it was detailed and thorough. You don't need to make up stuff just because I disagree with you.

As for your rationale for raising the shortie's stack size, I don't get it, so please explain what you mean to me. Let's look at it both ways. A) You make a standard 3x raise, one of the shorties has a hand and they push. If it then folds to you, you call. But instead if a big stack repops, you can probably throw your hand away comfortably and you've lost only the 3x. B) You raise the amount of the shorties, one of the shorties (the one with about 4x in this case) calls for his stack. If it then folds to you, fine. But if one of the big stacks repops, you're in exactly the same spot as you were in (A) and will probably fold, but having lost more chips (and extra BB in this case).

If your argument is that the big stack is less likely to repop it if you make the bigger initial raise, I doubt that's true. I think they're only reraiseing with a very narrow range either way and I'd expect the ranges to be nearly identical. In fact, they may actually do it more often if you make a bigger initial raise because there's more dead money in the pot when they push to isolate on the short stack.

So I'm really not seeing the value of making a bigger raise than normal here. Again, if I'm missing something, please expalin it to me.

(And yes, I realize that the shortie's stack is only a little bigger than a standard 3x raise to being with so it's not a huge difference, but I'm looking at this from a theoretical/general point of view rather than this specific spot.)

Matt