25-50 with a straddle

[10K-in-Clay]

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8800 in pot. bet is 3500. So...if you call, you're risking $3500 to win $4400. Instead, why not raise to like $7500? Then you're risking $7.5k to win $12.3k. Is this guy ever going to call a river raise to chop on that board?

I actually like folding the best but fold > raise > call imo.

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at the risk of sounding like an idiot and alienating really good posters, i'm going to say that i really really dislike this. i can't imagine him ever folding a king to a 4k raise, i know i would never fold a king to a 4k raise from a thinking player, i dont' think anyone should ever fold a king to a 4k raise, ev en if it is just calling to chop.

if you're going to raise, i think it should be a man raise to try and rep AK (given it's a little hard, it would still be hard for him to call 10 or 15k more with just a king) given he's rarely got AK himself.

i'm not thinking about the math here but intuitively it feels pretty bad to raise small here, better to raise big if we have to raise, but i still like folding better than that, and perhaps even calling better than putting in any raise at all.

i'll be honest, i'm kidn of shocked so many people think it's good to raise small here, i guess maybe i'm out of my mind or something.

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Its not really that a small raise is better than a fold but more the reasoning behind the idea that a small raise is better than a call that i thought made his post interesting.

in fact he did advocate folding.