[Michaelson]

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what is your goal by raising to $79 rather than pushing preflop?
Just ask yourself.

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I'm not pushing AA/KK preflop. He probably knows that. I am raising to this amount with hands I wanna get it in with and with bluffs that I fold to a push. I'm giving him a chanced to get involved with hands I dominate. He will not call a push with AQ/AJ, but may push them. I wanna be able to repop people with 56s and other trash since people fold to the 4-bet very often. Pushing preflop here and everyone and their dog will (correctly) put me on AK. Pushing is ok, but I really don't wanna play AK one way and big pairs/bluffs another way. lets my oppponents play too perfectly.

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I think it's almost always bad 4-betting then folding to a shove, particularly for metagame, but that's based more on a gut feeling than it is well thought out ideas.