[Lestat]

So are you saying you call with pretty much ALL your hands, i.e. AA down to 65s?

Meta-game works the other way too.

Suppose a good player knows you'll never re-raise his steals. Why shouldn't he raise pretty much 100% of the time (assume the sb is a bad player and thus a non-factor or the stealer is the sb)? You can't call every time, so he picks up your blind 100% of the time you fold. You can't continue after the flop 100% of the time, so he wins your blind plus you're call a percentage of the time too. Sometimes, he'll start with the better hand, so of course raising will be profitable those times. And then there are the times he'll out-flop you and/or improve to the best hand, so he wins your money here as well.

What I'm saying is that if your opponent knows it will never cost him 3 bets, you are making it more correct for him to raise and try to steal your blind. There's just too many ways he can win. He can either pick up your blind right away, win your blind plus a bet on the flop, or out-flop you. Never re-raising gives him too many ways to make a profit. What do you think?