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I reraise here even though it's higher variance because it makes the hand a lot easier to play. If he shoves, yay! If he even just calls and then checks the flop, I think we are bet/calling a shove on any flop except maybe KQJ. However if we call behind, raise his flop bet and then he shoves, we are put in a tough spot because we haven't defined our hand very well.

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I don't see how reraising is higher variance. If you reraise, you often win a medium sized pot when villain folds preflop, on the flop, or on the turn.

If you flat call, you usually get stacked by hands that are ahead of you (as happens whne you reraise and are called). Sometimes you win a big pot, but often you just get a cbet if villain misses.

KQJ is not that bad a flop for AA and I wouldn't fold it unless the preflop action strongly indicated villain has a big pair. Villain could easily give you action with hands you are ahead of. If you are behind, you have tons of outs to make top set, broadway, or aces up, and sometimes a nut flush.

Text results appended to pokerstove.txt

445,500 games 0.016 secs 27,843,750 games/sec

Board: Ks Qh Jd
Dead:

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 65.865% 62.51% 03.36% 278472 14958.00 { AA }
Hand 1: 34.135% 30.78% 03.36% 137112 14958.00 { 77+, A9s+, KTs+, QTs+, AJo+, KQo }


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