4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Sep 2004
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Originally Posted by daluchy
What hands do you usually raise besides the normal PP or TPTK hands when you are at the CO or earlier?
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When I'm in this mode, I kind of randomize. I raise any of these from any seat: AA, KK, QQ, JJ, TT, AK, AQ, AJ, AT, KQ. About half the time I'll raise with these: 99, 88, 77, KJ, KT, A9, A8. About a third of the time I raise any suited connectors or gappers at least as high as 45 or 46.
I haven't actually been keeping this aggressive lately, though. It's pretty easy to find a 6max table where a couple guys are already aggressive pre-flop, and lay back somewhat. If that's the case I raise less pre-flop, call more with suited connectors especially, and look for opportunities to take big pots off someone betting into me. If the flops are helpful you can almost make money faster playing like that - but you need at least one and ideally two aggressive people raising a lot of hands. If the table is more passive, I switch right into aggressive mode myself.
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On the hand where you had pocket tens, what made you reraise the guy on the flop and turn when there was a potential straight on the flop and a card on the turn that could help a guy on the draw?
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I re-raised the flop because it was all undercards, and I figured his lead-out bet meant he had a pair to the board or a straight draw. Either way I wasn't letting him off cheap. I didn't like the turn card, but he checked and I wanted to keep my position of strength in the hand. When he also checked the river I was content to check behind. Basically my $7 bet on the turn was going to be his payoff if he made the straight, but otherwise it was a warning signal to him not to try to bluff me.
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When you called an AI with 45. Did you read the guy had TPKP so the 45 wasn't that much of a dog or did you just call since it just would of been just the two of you in the hand.
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I put him on two overcards (as is often the case with short stacks going all in) and figured I wasn't much of a dog, plus it was a great table image play. It makes you look like a nut to raise and then call an all-in with 45o. If you win, even better.
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