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If you can isolate him by re-raising, then you re-raise with any cards that is better than his. If he raises with Kx suited, you re-raise with Ax suited.... If you don't hit the flop, close your eyes and call him down anyway.
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This is generally good advice, but keep in mind that you want a hand that's better on average than the
range of hands that you expect him to play. So even though A2s might beat K2s through KQs and say KTo through KQo in a showdown if no one improves, it would
be dominated by many more hands our LAG friend might play aggressively -- 22 through AA, A3s through AKs, say A7o through AKo. It's wishful thinking to hope he's raising with king-junk suited every time -- even maniacs get good cards from time to time. Therefore you have to consider if your hand compares favorably with his
range of possible hands, and I don't think A2s compares favorably enough to try to reraise and isolate. (As I said above, it may make sense to call and hope to hit a flush and win a big pot -- but that's much different than reraising with A2s hoping he's playing K7s.)
To the OP: I meant to provide a link explaining
HEPFAP, but you may also find this list of abbreviations helpful:
http://poker.wikicities.com/wiki/Abbreviations
11-14-2005, 04:35 PM
Re: starting standards when playing behind an aggressive player?
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