Quote Originally Posted by Pants_101
I suspect you are right. I'll play it strictly by the book until I win consistently then try to move up to slightly more interesting limits. One question what sort of high cards do you generally call raises with in early, middle or late assuming a raise by a loose player? I'll call with a pair to try to hit a set and probably re-raise with AA KK or AKs. What about something like AJs? Or AQs? AKo? Is J10s ever worth a call if others have called already?
I'll call raises with AJ+, all pp, and most suited connectors. I will usually reraise with QQ+ and AK. However, it is normally read dependant and if I am seeing someone getting out of line, I will reraise instead of call with AJ, AQ, TT-JJ, and sometimes KQ. I try to stay away from calling raises with A2-A10 only because if I hit an A I don't know where I am at. I try not to play a small Ax because they are difficult to play and they will get you in trouble. Sometimes I will call a raise with Axs and look for a good draw when I'm in position. One thing to note, calling raises with the marginal hands that I mentioned may not be profitable if your opponents don't have a stack behind them. Make sure you have the implied odds of taking a big stack if you happen to hit big.