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foldem
08-28-2005, 12:59 AM
5/10 6max
effective stacks are around 1500

Folded around to the button who makes it 40 to go I call in the BB with AT /images/graemlins/club.gif. How often should I be reraising here?

Flop comes AQ9 all spades, I check and call 60. Turn is another A, I lead for 125 planning to fold to a raise. Standard line?

creedofhubris
08-28-2005, 02:25 AM
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5/10 6max
effective stacks are around 1500

Folded around to the button who makes it 40 to go I call in the BB with AT /images/graemlins/club.gif. How often should I be reraising here?

Flop comes AQ9 all spades, I check and call 60. Turn is another A, I lead for 125 planning to fold to a raise. Standard line?

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I like reraising with monster hands and with hands with no high card strength whatsoever, like 6/images/graemlins/diamond.gif7/images/graemlins/spade.gif. Fair hands like A/images/graemlins/club.gifT/images/graemlins/club.gif are not really repopping hands IMO.

Some players view turn donk bets (your lead out on the turn after check/calling the flop) as invitations to raise big and blast the other player out of the hand. If he's one of those superaggro guys, you could continue to check/call. Otherwise, how he responds to your bet should tell you what you need to know.

foldem
08-28-2005, 01:46 PM
If I check call the turn what is my plan for the river? Check call a blank, blocking bet?

BobboFitos
08-28-2005, 07:29 PM
I do like the line, I'm not sure I would dump to turn raise though. First, it's very likely you're good. Second, if not, you have outs against everythin but AQ. It's a blind steal, so I assume he's not a nit, you're giving action to someone who has a wide range of hands. Therefore AK, AQ, AJ (the hands you fear) are just a small %.
Edit: Plus, as creed said, (Just read his post...) alot of super aggro will view this as either a blocker with a marginal hand or draw (like Ks) and give more weighting towards raising with air or a worse hand... Thats why I dont think it's a routine fold at all.

creedofhubris
08-28-2005, 09:30 PM
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If I check call the turn what is my plan for the river? Check call a blank, blocking bet?

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I really hate blocking bets against super aggro guys, they never work. If he's so aggro you need to check/call the turn, you need to check/call the river too.