Thread: AK NL 50
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Old 09-05-2007, 03:42 AM
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Default Re: AK NL 50

for completeness' (PNL-Book) sake: your problem actually is preflop, because your (standard) raise sets up the stack sizes in a way that is very uncomfortable to play with TPTK oop. With effectively 100BB stacks, you'll have exactly 3 pot sized bets remaining. And that is just too much if you get it in with TPTK unless you have an extraordinarily bad opponent. The solution is to either play a shorter stack (which will get you flamed here [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]), raise more (which might narrow your opponent's range too much, i.e. he only plays top hands), raise less (think minraise which will get you flamed even more but will allow you to play a smaller pot where you can go further into the hand without being tied to it if your minraise will allow you to get it heads up) or be more creative in different ways (limp reraising, e.g. but you can do that only if your opponent's range is still wide enough so that you can expect him to call with worse hands).
This is probably very confusing to you. Never mind. Summary: your stack size sucks for playing TPTK oop against an aggressive opponent. So don't give him the opportunity to push you off the hand.
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