[Sherman]

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This whole 2500 idea, to a bad player, may be interpreted as really weak and he may think he has FE and push with a small pair (like 33 or 44) which he would fold otherwise. I'm looking to fold out 33, 44, 55 here but, get AJo and A10 to call.

Now, here is a question of stylistics (lol): In the hand, I push for 15.2K (whatever I had), the player in BB had 2.3K, so no biggy from that front. Is this better or worse than raising to 4K (Villain2's amount) in terms of psychology. And why?

Barry

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I just always shove rather than play the leveling game of "now what does that funny raise size or overbet shove mean?"

If you know which level your opponent is liable to think on and what you want him to do, by all means use that to your advantage (and either raise to cover or shove). Most often I have no clue about what level my opponents think on, so I just shove no matter what.