My
standard KK preflop play: When I'
m OOP I
raise and if I'
m reraised I
call and
lead the
flop.
Fold to
aggression. When
in position reraise the initial raiser and
call the reraise if it's reasonable. Most guys at 25NL get so excited with
AA they genrally will immediately go all in on the third bet though so it's an easy
fold.
The extreme majority of people will
tell you
to go all in with
KK preflop if you can every time in the absense of
reads. I think they are totally wrong to say this for lower stakes. In fact, it's pretty reckless. From 25NL to 100NL 95% of the hands reraising preflop are
KK or
AA. Anyone who is reraising with a wider
range than that is going to stick out like a sore thumb so you will know when it's ok.
I stopped playing
KK all in preflop against unknowns or semi-decent players+ some time ago and do not believe I have lost any value vs the amount I would lose when up against
AA because that is the only hand you will find you're up against the vast majority of the times.
So to sum up, while everyone is saying go all in preflop with
KK if possible unless you have
reads, I say get all in vs
aggression ONLY WITH
reads. Only on trickier looser tables do I believe it has value to blindly go all in with preflop. And generally these days 25NL is not as
loose as some of these guys seem to remember it.