[EvilSteve]

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so you're saying when he opens it hasnt been for a minraise ever? or he hasnt been opening so its suspicious no matter what.

either way its pretty close. i would probably shove without thinking

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I guess what I'm saying is I generally find a minraise to be suspicious unless its against a habitual minraiser, and I hadn't seen that pattern from this guy. But also he hadn't been opening many pots period, and none that I can recall from such early position, so its possible that his default raise from there is a minraise. Regardless he was tight enough that him entering the pot at all was scary, and for me the minraise makes it a bit scarier (but like another poster said, it could be a way to see a cheap flop with something speculative, playing on the fear a minraise might produce, as it does for me). Result: he called my push with AKo and I was eliminated. Normally that push is automatic but because of my read I was close to folding, which based on the responses I got sounds about right.

I'll use that converter next time.