Reraise gone wrong

[FGators]

Good post, ansky. Wardecker has a lot of me in him from like six months ago. Hopefully he will improve. I'm sure others don't believe I have but I wholeheartedly agree with ansky's logic here.

[sobefuddled]

Help me to understand something here. I come from the school of thought that says 3-5 times the BB is an appropriate raise in any position unless you want to frighten away the competition, steal the blinds or self-destruct. Now, coming from that school I could be on that button with AA. If you come in with that 2 grand reraise? You bet I'm raising or calling. If it's AA or KK I'm calling sweetie.

[kutuz_off]

Bond, you can check-fold this flop. Would you check on this flop with AKo?

[bigballz]

c/f

[registrar]

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c/f

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check/gut, usually fold.

[TakenItEasy]

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Help me to understand something here. I come from the school of thought that says 3-5 times the BB is an appropriate raise in any position unless you want to frighten away the competition, steal the blinds or self-destruct. Now, coming from that school I could be on that button with AA. If you come in with that 2 grand reraise? You bet I'm raising or calling. If it's AA or KK I'm calling sweetie.

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Button could be raising with an very wide range of hands of which AA/KK is a very tiny percentage of. JJ is ahead of the vast majority of the buttons posible hands so getting the button to commit more money with a calling range that is still behind JJ is the best EV play at the moment.

Just because sometimes the button has AA doesn't mean we shouldn't maximize EV. It's kind of like not wanting to cross the street to go to work because something bad might happen.

[Bond18]

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Bond, you can check-fold this flop. Would you check on this flop with AKo?

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Sometimes.