Laying Down an Overpair - Party 20

[DeeJ]

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all rational

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fyp ... if more than 1 of the other guys I know are LAGs I'm calling, that's fine. Folding the best hand is a huge mistake, sure.

But I've also hung around on boards like this with a less-than-nut overpair and frequently come a poor third (eg to AA and JJ here), and needed to put in a further 4,5,6 BB to get a showdown. That's also a major leak situation. If you get a blank turn and it's raised to you, do you call 2 again? or reraise? In my experience in a normal (not hyper-aggressive) game people who raise and reraise into a large field of opponents can beat top pair.

In my post I assumed that Hero needed to improve to win. I guess if you assume that Hero is ahead 20% of the time you can profitably raise yourself, for value.

Your mileage may vary. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]