Irisheyes wrote:
Good post. Here's a situation I always wonder about with regards to betting for information.

Say 200bb stacks.

I raise 5xbb UTG with AA and get one caller in LP.

flop comes Q 6 2 rainbow.

I bet 2/3 the pot (7xbb) and villan raises to 21xbb.

What do I do?

options are
reraise - which is purely and information bet
or call - which gains me no information and I have to act first on the turn.


Are you joking???

You got raise 21bb or a tenth of your stack. You had better know now where you are in the hand. What are you going to do? risk half your stack on a raise and essentually commit the rest of it on a raise??? FOR INFORMATION? That isn't even RELIABLE?????

Here are your options. Fold because you think your opponent hit a set. Reraise for VALUE against a strong Q. Call and plan to follow a WA/WB line. Or call to trap your opponent on a later street.
Thats a hell of a lot of information you need to get without betting.