hazeelnut
11-28-2003, 09:51 AM
One thing that ive started doing lately is reraising with hands such as 89TJ, 7899 and other medium rundown hands(given that the stacks are deep). My thoughts behind this play is:
1. If the original raiser doesnt have AA he will most likely only call and put me on AA, and thus i can steal the pot if the flop comes something like 338. If the flop comes to my liking im more likely to get action from a worse hand like bottom two pair since he put me on AA.
2. If the original raiser does have AA he will most likely make a potsized reraise and this is also good. Now he might have something like a fourth of his chips (i wont reraise if he can get more than a third of his chips in with a reraise) in the pot and it will be very difficult for him to get away from his hand, giving me good implied odds since i can easily get away from mine.
Now to the question, is this a good play(i know its a very high variance play, but ignore that)? The thing is that it hasnt really worked out well for me, but i feel ive been unlucky. Or maybe this is just an awful play, what do i know?
hazeel
1. If the original raiser doesnt have AA he will most likely only call and put me on AA, and thus i can steal the pot if the flop comes something like 338. If the flop comes to my liking im more likely to get action from a worse hand like bottom two pair since he put me on AA.
2. If the original raiser does have AA he will most likely make a potsized reraise and this is also good. Now he might have something like a fourth of his chips (i wont reraise if he can get more than a third of his chips in with a reraise) in the pot and it will be very difficult for him to get away from his hand, giving me good implied odds since i can easily get away from mine.
Now to the question, is this a good play(i know its a very high variance play, but ignore that)? The thing is that it hasnt really worked out well for me, but i feel ive been unlucky. Or maybe this is just an awful play, what do i know?
hazeel