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Old 11-14-2007, 02:39 PM
PantsOnFire PantsOnFire is offline
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Default Re: Over-betting Aces a good or bad idea?

This play depends on the current typical pf action, stack sizes, your table image, your position, your postflop skills and the style (and postflop skills) of the other players.

With a short to medium stack, you should probably make a bet that will create a pot size such that a shove on any flop would make sense.

With a very short stack, a shove is probably the correct thing to do pf.

With a very deep stack, an overbet will have to be a calculated choice based on the factors I mentioned in para 1.

In general, remember that you play poker to win money (or chips) so you want to get value for your good hands. If you go all-in with 200BBs, you will win 1.5BBs very often and may get called from time to time with AK, KK, or QQ. However, sometimes players will fold those hand to a 200BB all-in bet so you will be losing lots of value.

As well, large overbets might get hands like AT, AJ, AQ, KQ etc to fold where a flop with a high card in it might get lots of chips from those hands if they hit.

Edit: As a last thought, a normal raise may be more likely to get re-raised than an overbet. Again, this may give you more value.
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