Re: Those Pesky Fishhooks...
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but didn’t want to push the pot up too high
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For some reason, I've been seeing this idea pop up recently, and it's wrong, wrong, wrong.
1.) You WANT the pot high. You have the fourth-best starting hand!
2.) The other reason to raise it up is to knock out drawing hands. Your Jacks get progressively more vulnerable as more people join the pot. Ideally, you want to get heads-up whenever you have pocket queens, jacks, or tens.
With a substantial raise, you will accomplish one or both of these goals. With a wimpy raise, you won't accomplish either.
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Yes, I agree with this line of thinking. What I was after was; “how to minimize the number of folks in the pot, yet not over-commit chips with many yet to act behind me.”
What I often see is if the raise is too large, it seems to entice folks to go all-in. At this stage I don’t want anyone going all-in because I won’t know what it means (QQ-AA, AQ+, any 2 pushing for chips).
But I agree that t125-t175 would have been a better amount.
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