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If you aren't willing to "gamble" with JJ in hand 1, then you are almost certainly never going to beat this guy. You must be able and willing to push with hands like this one against someone who is picking up lots of your dead money.

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Hey Marlow,

Interesting point.

Not necessarily to disagree that I should put my money in in this situation, but I think this is an overstatement.

In advance of positively correlating his actions with his hands, my default plan is to value bet the hell out of him whenever I hit > 2nd pair.

I'm not sure that it is necessary to get my chips in the first time he raises me in order to make money against this player. But obviously I'm far from convinced either way, hence the post!