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gutsh0t

06-30-2006, 07:13 AM

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Join Date: Jun 2006

Posts: 8

Quote:

Originally Posted by euphoricism

I disagree. Raising the flop is dumb. We'll only fold a worse hand, and we'll get punished when he has a better hand. Raising the flop does us precious little good.

If he's willing to fire bets into a pot when he is way the hell behind, why would you want to raise and discourage that?

i find that in the low limits that I play at ($1/$2)...this raise is effective for me because its not really "discouraging" my opponents when they're behind. Its just capitalizing on their retardedness for calling my raises when they're behind. Very often they will go to river and showdown with a crap hand all the while calling my raises and bets when i think my hand is good. I see players with low pocket pair firing a bet on flop when the board is paired or even high card draws.