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Old 12-15-2005, 10:44 AM
Tilt Tilt is offline
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Default Re: Handling reraises preflop (noob question)

If you never, ever raised a hand UTG it would be only a small mistake. This is not a terrible hand to raise UTG at a loose table, but its still just a drawing hand which won't play well out of position. Just limp and call the raise, you'll be in much better shape.

Now that you have been reraised, I don't see calling 1/3 of your stack off here. More often than not you'll end up all in on the flop if you do drawing thinly, possibly with your draws dominated. If you think there will be a few more callers you could call, but I think heads up its better to fold to the reraise.

Pushing is not terrible, it might be the best solution as I think about it. You probably have 45% equity and the extra money in the pot already probably makes it an EV coinflip. You might push out the higher flush draws in doing so. So I say push and embrace variance here.

Looking forward to hearing what others think on this one.
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