[Sunny Mehta]

I'm surprised that so many people took issue with the limp-reraise. Though, maybe I shouldn't be surprised since so many of my students want to talk about/take issue with/don't understand 3-betting in general.

A pf rr is a tactic that can be used to achieve one of many purposes. That's it. It can be very effective when used correctly, and that simply requires understanding its implications. I find it odd when players "never do" something. It's usually either because they don't understand it, or they don't adjust well to it themselves. (I put min-raising in that category, incidentally.)

Those who are vehemently against limp-reraising are opposing a line that gets more money into the pot preflop. But ahh, they cling to the old "cost of giving away your hand" mantra. I have two things to say to that:

1) LOL at people in this game only lrr-ing with AA.
2) EVEN IF one reraises with a very narrow range, at what point does the information matter? (mathematically)

The game is about adjusting, folks. Here you have a player who is playing almost every hand, and raising almost every hand. Why would you NOT adjust to that by doing some different things preflop? You just have to understand its effect on the game/table.

Let me give you an example. In one hand, I was on the button and the tournadonk was in the BB. A bunch of people limped to me, and I limped with AcQc. SB completed, and sure enough, BB raised to $100. All limpers called and I pushed all-in. SB and BB each thought for a long time before folding. SB had TT and BB had QJ. Not bad to take advantage of a great situation and a good image to win a big preflop pot uncontested while getting a better hand to fold and almost getting a severely dominated hand to call, huh?

It's all about adjusting.

I have more to say but I'll put it in a separate post....