Re: Interesting AA post by Garland from medium stakes
this hand is appalling. is an explanation even required?
fine, here's one: the preflop calling range of a random opponent with those stats includes *almost every hand he raised preflop*. You can profitably bet this flop to win the existing pot when expecting no action from worse hands. You can almost certainly expect action from AK (hey, a worse hand!) because AK calls ~50%+ preflop and puts more money in on this flop 100% of the time. check-folding is just bizarre.
i don't know any game online where people are only calling reraises from random players with QQ+. if you think for some reason that your opponent can put you squarely on AA-QQ when you reraise preflop and play accordingly, uhm, adjust. it takes a sophisticated read to make the play garland made on this flop (tons of info is required), and you just don't have that in most situations. if garland had it he shouldn't have posted the hand.
is this an actual q? i mean, wtf?
and, uh, your opponent can call without sufficient "implied odds" when he has position and you've shown a willingness to fold when faced with resistance or pressure on a significant % of flops w/your 'preflop reraise' hand range. his post-flop 'steal/fold equity'is more than enough to make up for whatever he loses by not making a superior hand and getting paid often enough.
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