Quote Originally Posted by SmackinYaUp
reraise it. you have a really strong hand and its going to take a whole lot more action to make me consider folding. your hand is also vulnerable because a lot of cards kill the action. make it a big pot now while you're most likely ahead and don't let him draw for cheap. his raise wasn't all that big. so you let him make the hard decision. playing fast is good.
I honestly think that reraising is a terrible play with stacks this big. He cannot concievably think any of the hands I'm beating are good if I 3-bet, but if I call, there's a chance he will overplay these hands. With this board, I often only get action when I'm beat (except perhaps from a set trying to fill up) by reraising, and there's a very real possibility that I'm drawing dead. If I call, I simultaneously hedge against being beat, and encourage him to overplay his hand when he's behind. Reraising has the benefit of charging him to fill up if he has a set, but hardly makes sense for any other holding, as I'm telling him to either slow down or fold when he's drawing dead. Actually, reraising and just calling are probably almost identical in terms of profitability when he has a set, since he'll probably make a substantial bet on the turn when I check to him if I just call his flop raise. The only difference is I have no fold equity, which is not a huge deal since I have the best hand anyways.

Regarding the idea that I may be faced with a difficult decision, if the board pairs or another heart hits, I don't have a difficult decision at all, it's usually any easy fold if the hand becomes too expensive.

As for the result of the hand, I called, and check-called $100 bets on the turn and river, and he turned over a K high flush. Think about how out of control the hand would have gotten had I reraised on the flop with 175 BB stacks. That's part of what I was trying to avoid.