Originally Posted by Irisheyes
Well taking the K8 hand above for example let me try and explain what I did and why.
Firstly, raising on the button here is standard for me. Basically I'm trying to steal the blinds. I'll cbet a flop if needs be and try and take it down. My main concern is taking the blinds and trying to keep my Preflop Raise % high so that it's not obvious what I have every time I raise.
Now, the guy in the big blind is a guy I play with a decent ammount and he's a good enough player. He has seen me raise on the button and cut-off alot over the last few orbits and he knows that I can't have really good hands every time I am raising because I simply couldn't get dealt that many good hands. So, he reraises me hoping that I will fold my not-so-good hand.
But, I know this guy too well. He has reraised me like this before. Perhaps too often. He does it often enough that I now he can't have AA/KK every time. So, I think one level above him and decide that I don't believe that he has AA/KK and I re-reraise him.
Now if you look at the situation he finds himself in, basically I am repping AA/KK and he has to fold everything that isn't AA/KK. He will probably even fold QQ here and I take the pot down with measley K8. But I'm not just manically reraising, there was a string of events which led me to do this.
If you have anymore questions feel free to ask and I'm more then glad to explain.
nice post
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