Re: Playing against a straddle
straddle play is mandatory if you plan on moving from homo/online poker or max. buy poker to REAL games. if you are in a game where people routinely play back at the straddler than you need a hand that can stand a re-raise to raise because people are going to view your raise as a playback and re-jack you with smaller pairs or AJ suited. now its all player dependant in the end but when the first line of raising no longer means what it did before the game doubles in size and the second raise now represents the values of the first raise before...you have to be willing to really make a read and jam somebody.
if NO ONE is routinely playing back at the straddler...jam at will, limping hands should now be raising hands.
oh, and dont be a mope, try straddling yourself sometimes or youll never be able to read a straddler correctly.
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