[DiscipleAA]

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might an allin be better than any other raise size?

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This depends on your read of villian, because I assume I am generally facing weaker players I normally make this raise to ~15000 here, in every situation, and it therefore never looks out of line, a good player will likely realize he is all in anyways and will make his decision regardless of the #'s in front of you, but to a bad player a raise of a lot of chips with many #'s and a larger total will look scarier and if his situation is marginal may be all the reason he needs to fold... (a great player may pick up on this as looking like a tell of strength if he is seeing me do it for the first time, and then may lay it down, I dont encounter many great players and when I do, everything i do is out side the norm, I basically begin playing mind games)... but my thoughts on the raise size here are psychological...