[Rick Nebiolo]

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By the time we got to the turn I was already wishing he was deeper or shallower. His stack made it weird. A guy sitting next to me - who I generally think of as a moron - told me he hated my PF raise as well - he said he would've made it $500.

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I hope to straighten out my thinking regarding a pre flop reraise to $500 being better. Hopefully this isn’t too much of a beginner question.

Assume non out of line player will often have a decent pair.

By reraising to $310 with his stack remaining $3200 or so (if he calls $230 more) you are giving him correct implied odds to flop a set (assuming you can’t easily get away from AA).

By reraising to $500 he needs to call $420 more and his stack will be $3000. Now he isn’t getting correct implied odds to flop a set and makes a mistake to call.

Is this most of it or is there more?

~ Rick