Originally Posted by relayer

"1 is standard with stack sizes. "

I thought hero's play in hand 1 was standard, too, but this comment provoked an important concept that I admit I still don't completely understand. Namely, how does stack size influence the play in hand 1? What if villain had a substantially bigger or smaller stack? Or is this comment directed at hero's stack size? If so, again, what would differ if hero's stack was much bigger or smaller...

Sorry for the newb question, but I am trying to get better...

Originally Posted by Miffed22001

if opp has a small stack in hand 1 reraising you wont win enough when you hit/think ou are good to make upo for your loses.
eg if you get reraised here with 66 and assume opp holds AA/KK and you have lts behind, say 200bbs its an easy call considering how much you will win if you hit. In the opposite case if opp only has 40bbs behind and commits a chunk of it before the flop in the same situation you wont win enough long term to make calling a +ev decision.
In short, the more money behind (effective stack sizes) the more you shuld look to take a flop with hands like pps/sc's facing a reraise.

Originally Posted by Rondavu

Reraise was a huge mistake as already stated. Please understand that once you did reraise however, and villain announces a very strong hand with a min 3 bet (Almost definately a straight), it becomes overwhelmingly correct to call for the river, because now the villain is way less likely to put you on a flush if you hit (since you aren't taking a flush draw line anymore), and will almost always pay you off max.