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Old 07-14-2005, 09:09 AM
Ghazban Ghazban is offline
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Default Re: Should you respect annoying minumum PFR\'s

You're more or less on target. There are a couple other things to consider, though:

1) Short stack minraisers. These guys sit down with 20BB, minraise a big hand, then can comfortably push most flops. You don't have very good implied odds against them and some of them are only minraising premium hands anyway so reraising a hand you like to raise with (but not call a real raise with) can get you in trouble. They are usually pretty easy to spot but I generally avoid cold calling a new-to-the-table short stack minraise unless I've got the goods. If a few other people with deeper stacks call, overcalling lots of hands you would limp with is fine so long as you recognize you will likely only get to see the flop before shorty pushes in.

2) People who minraise a huge range of hands from all positions but never make non-minimum preflop raises. These guys are fantastic on your left as they let you limp/reraise lots of hands from lots of positions and trap a lot of money in the pot from people who called the minraise but won't call your LRR.

3) People who minraise sometimes and make larger raises sometimes. Once you can figure out what their minraising standards are vs. their larger raise standards, you can profitably play more hands against them both when they minraise and when they make a larger raise (the reasons for this should be self-evident).
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