[Jeppi]

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Damn, I am stuck here. We really cant charge him without commiting ourself to call the push.

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What would be so bad about that? Can you really see a set min-raising the flop, and then checking that turn? I could be wrong but I don't. I insta-call a push.

Kirk

PS: set = a hand that beats ours, not "set" per se.

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In case he has a set and he thinks we have nothing (we only called the miniraise) it is still a good opportunity to induce a bet. He appears weak by checking so we can try to buy the pot (it represents one third of our remaining stack now), specially if the Q helped us or we want to pretend it did. Then his eventual check-raise if we call commits us to the pot.

He could be doing that with AA as well, I've noticed a lot of people flat calling with AA (even QQ or KK) to extract maximum value from the hand.

He may have nothing, but it makes sens to me when you hit a set in level 1 to try to extract maximum value from it. It is worthwile to take some risks here.