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Reraising with dominated hands against a loose range may be EV+. Calling never is. Its just fundamentally bad poker. Like calling with SC OOP or openlimping. If you call with AQ here, you should call with AJ and KQ since its essentially the same thing and all of them have loosing equity against TT+, AJ+. The RIO makes things really ugly, like in this thread. We hit one of the best flops - and where are we? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] If you think he's 3betting light - feel free to 4bet. I rather do it with a different hand of course, but its still better than calling. This is pretty much one of the few cases where I think "raising for information" may be a little justified and actually save you a lot of money.

I dont know, I may be a little biased on this topic. But I remembered from the first card runners videos to always insta muck AQ to a 3bet and never reraise EP with AJ AQ or anyting else dominated. Almost every time I went against this I found myself in a lot of trouble and usually lost the pot.

If you watch Taylor or Andrew play both in 100NL and 1000NL, without history, they just muck AQ to a 3bet like its 72o. And I still remember Taylor being shocked by some guys agressive reraise with AJs from the blinds to Taylors EP opening in 400NL. He said something like "Ok, this table seems pretty solid. Except for the guy who raised me with AJ. This is just atrocious." I think its the worst critique I ever heard from him in all the videos - he usually does not go any further than saying "the player is not so good".

And the second most important thing I learned from CR, other than position, is to pick your flop and preflop spots carefully. The reason GP was so good - not just because he understands the game better than anyone or is a great hand reader. I think one of the main things is because he is phenomenally good at staying out of trouble. If there is any chance that he may be in a bad position on the flop - be it position wise, range wise, agression wise or something else - he just lets it go. He does not take chances unless he has a good read and a good plan. How may people you know limp/fold AQ from the blinds? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]