Sort of Theory Post

[MDMA]

Yes, you can make those kind of hands fold in this spot, and I said that doing it with air has some merit just because of this, but I still don't like it since the raise either pinpoint you on air or monster. E.g raising with AT here is the same as raising with air, because any hand AQ,AJ and worse will most probably fold, hence AT is pretty the same as air.

Only reason I don't like a raise is because I don't think it's credible at all barring like two specific hands, since you would likely slowplay all monsters until turn and just flatcall. I'd raise here with air here very very seldom, to accomodate the fact that I seldom should have one of the few hands that would actually raise here. And, when I do, it will always be either one of these hands or air; never something like AT. Needless to say, you cant flatcall your monsters and raise with air here routinely.