A Fish Limp Re-Raise Phenomenon!

[Snoogins47]

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I limp A9s UTG. Early and mid seats call. Button raises, blinds fold. I call, early seat re-raises, mid-seat caps. WTF?

Early seat guy folded on the turn against a QT flop so apparently he had no Aces or Kings. And mid seat guy had pocket jacks that weren't worth raising the first time, but were worth cap'ing with later.

I've seen many a lets all call this hand fish phenomenon. This was the first limp re-raise one I've encountered. Interesting.

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Just tonight I've gotten Limp Re-Raised with AJs, QJ, and... i want to say 77.

It's interesting. It's even more mindblowing than the "out of position underpair check-and-call-and-then-lead-the-river" thing I've seen way too many times to count.

It's like... "I've got a pocket pair, I deserve to win, he might have a Queen, but... oh wait, it's the river, some book told me to value bet the river a lot, so I'll do it."

At least, that's the only thought process I can even possibly figure for it, and even that's a bit thin.

It shocks me that a lot of these people are college kids like myself, who somehow scrounge up enough money to dump $400 on partypoker and claim it's rigged because they can beat the drunk kids in their frat house.

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I too will never understand why someone who has been calling me down with pocket 4's will suddenly lead at the river. It's about the stupidest thing ever. The only thing I can think of is they are hoping I will fold like 2nd pair.

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I figured it out.

They call it "slow-playing."

[Gatts]

This happened at .5/1 but I was limp-reraised by A5s (I had AJo) and he fired out the whole way. I called with MPTK and he showed his ace high.

[AdamL]

I've seen the limp-reraise from strange spots, such as cut-off and MP's.

I think they just feel that after it's been raised, they may as well build a huge pot so they can chase any possible draws all the way to showdown. They don't like calling a raise and then having to let go of a hand on the turn.

[Zetack]

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I too will never understand why someone who has been calling me down with pocket 4's will suddenly lead at the river. It's about the stupidest thing ever. The only thing I can think of is they are hoping I will fold like 2nd pair.

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I figured it out.

They call it "slow-playing."

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I had a hand the other day, I either had AA or TPTK (I don't remember) I raised PF and led out the whole way. A completely non-scary looking card fell on the river and I led out again and got raised. I cursed out loud at the lucky SOB playing crap who rivered his two pair or set but called...and he turned over his Q-9 no pair--complete bluff raise of a rag river card. Wow!

--Zetack