Quote Originally Posted by Big-EZ
If you trust your read I like the raise here. To me though $24 maybe too small. It leaves it just $12 more to him after putting in $12. That price may lead him into calling with something like sixes. I say we force him to fold anything other then a made hand with a raise to $30-$35. Although we do risk a bit more I think were going to get more hands that villian has here out of there.
Thanks for the reply. It costs villain $16 after our raise. $24-$8 = $16. In my opinion most average players won't be calling the flop raise with small pair type hands. I think raising $30-$35 starts to get a bit steep as we are then getting like 35%-40% of our stack in on the flop.

Quote Originally Posted by Big-EZ
If we have two overs I like the float because we still have a chance to hit a pair.
If you raise with overs and get called there's usually a good chance that you will get to see a free river.