AJs

[emil3000]

I would some of the time. 20% includes a lot of crappy hands, and wtih a caller in between you got a nice squeeze... Even if you get called you take the pot down on the flop the majority of the time. They just called with a pocket pair for the implied odds against your obvious aces. And you are sooted.

But calling is obviously fine. I am just a frequent reraiser of late, but it's worked out well.

[amoeba]

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I would some of the time. 20% includes a lot of crappy hands, and wtih a caller in between you got a nice squeeze... Even if you get called you take the pot down on the flop the majority of the time. They just called with a pocket pair for the implied odds against your obvious aces. And you are sooted.

But calling is obviously fine. I am just a frequent reraiser of late, but it's worked out well.

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reraising is better than calling.

calling blows.

[scdavis0]

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I would some of the time. 20% includes a lot of crappy hands, and wtih a caller in between you got a nice squeeze... Even if you get called you take the pot down on the flop the majority of the time. They just called with a pocket pair for the implied odds against your obvious aces. And you are sooted.

But calling is obviously fine. I am just a frequent reraiser of late, but it's worked out well.

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reraising is better than calling.

calling blows.

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This kind of hyperbole gets really tiring.

And I disagree.

[amoeba]

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I would some of the time. 20% includes a lot of crappy hands, and wtih a caller in between you got a nice squeeze... Even if you get called you take the pot down on the flop the majority of the time. They just called with a pocket pair for the implied odds against your obvious aces. And you are sooted.

But calling is obviously fine. I am just a frequent reraiser of late, but it's worked out well.

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reraising is better than calling.

calling blows.

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This kind of hyperbole gets really tiring.

And I disagree.

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please read my earlier post.

calling is AJ is bad because while suited and mildly connected, you just don't flop the straight and or the flush that often. because villain is LAG, most hands from villain youve seen before this hand likely did not go to showdown and thus you have no idea the with what range villain is willing to commit with how much on later streets.

you flop a pair 1/3 of the time. of the times that you flop a J , some of hte time a Q or K is also on the flop and you still have to check fold.

to compound our problem, there is a third player who is likely calling with a marginal hand who we are giving a free shot at hitting a TP breaking hand.

what if villain's preflop raise % was 30%? 40%? do we agree that reraising AJ is the right play in this case? or do we still hope to make TP on the flop and try to trap?