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Was there a potential overcall, as well? If you lose the overcall you don't win anything extra at all by raising when you have the best hand. You simply expose yourself to more risk for those times when you have the worst.

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No there wasn't an overcaller in my situation, but maybe I'm missing something.

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Yup, that's huge.

And MHIG he had A [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]

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Respectfully. I disagree. If the overcaller folds but you get 1, 2, or 3 more bets out of the other guy when you have the best of it then you're getting a better return. As I see it you call, overcaller calls so you get +1 BB. If you raise, overcaller folds, first bettor calls, that's +1 BB. If you raise overcaller folds and it goes to 3 or 4 bets, and YHIG you get +2 or +3BB. As I said previously, if you've got the best hand even slightly better than 1/2 the time you have to raise.