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Old 03-18-2008, 03:01 AM
JonathanLB JonathanLB is offline
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I'm pretty careful with kings or aces, I mean I will not raise those hands small, if I raise I raise to knock everyone off unless they have a premium hand or want to pay to see the flop with bad cards, which is good for me. That's just me. I would rather take down a useless tiny pot than lose a giant pot because I don't raise enough. So I'll usually go with 6-8x the big blind in a cash game. In a tournament it's very simple -- all-in most of the time. Can't believe how many people call, donks. I don't care what blind level is most of the time either. A lot of donks think an all-in with tiny blinds represents weakness, so I love that. Donks will sometimes call with bad hands. And you get lucky sometimes when QQ or KK is there too and they have to call. Otherwise that hand is over and I move on.

After the flop with cases, I bet aggressively but if I get really aggressively re-raised I pause. I mean, I'm not going to fold to any re-raise on the flop with bullets, of course, but if I had 3 callers, which has happened, and someone is really pushing hard back, I'm not going to be that guy who he doubled up with because he idiotically called a pre-flop raise that was huge with pocket 3s and hit the set. Good for him. Let someone else pay him off. Every time I think to myself, "Nah, that re-raise is BS, he doesn't have crap," I get owned. I would say maybe 1 in 10 times I call a huge raise I am actually surprised to see my opponent was bluffing. The other times I am sorely disappointed that, yes, indeed, my 10-J set of jacks really was beat by A-J, or my J-10 was really beat by J-7 full house, etc. I don't honestly have to call to figure that out anymore. Not enough people bluff in cash games anyway (not at low levels) so I just trust their bets for the most part.
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