JJ interesting preflop situation

[shejk]

Yes, I'd be glad to answer the question about my range. I think it can help myself some as well.

First off, like you said, this was more like a steal/resteal situation than anything else, and the sb came much like a surprise.

The initial reraise is a pretty wide range, sometimes I do it with small pairs, sometimes with SCs sometimes with good hands. With aqs here in the same situation, I'd often call the first raise. You being ID:ed as a good player though were a prime target for such reraises. It may have happened before, I don't know for sure. The sb I figured would have a weak hand that he'd fold against a reraise.

As I said earlier, I fcked this up a bit by making my reraise to small. I think I raised to 28 with ~20 in the pot already. A decent sized reraise here would have been more like 40-50.

Anyways, I naturally was a bit worried about your call. To me, this is a medium to high pair, but not likely aa, kk, perhaps not qq, or hands like ak. Since I was giving you such nice odds, I figured you might also call with speculative hands like SCs and small pockets.

When the sb pushes, I'm thinking that he has played this hand really weird, and since he's on tilt, I'm assuming he's got a pretty crappy hand. I was putting him on a smallish pair most likely, but with a lot of other hands in the mix as well, premium pairs as well, however unlikely.

To call that I'd need a range like 88+, aq+. I'd fold my sc, any lower pockets, and I'd seldom reraise with a hand like aj in the first place. Against this range, your jacks certainly would have been a good call. The fine thing about this is that I'd play my premium pockets exactly the same in this scenario, apart from that I might push over the small blinds push.

Thinking about this a bit more, I realize that the initial reraise, while coming every time with AA, KK, QQ, won't come at all that often with hands like 88 or AQs (or naturally small pockets or scs that I fold to the push). So, whether it's a good call, I'm not that certain any more. It's quite difficult to quantify just how often/seldom I make this move with the lower part of my range.

If sb would have folded instead, this would have been an interesting hand with a flop like T55. I'd almost certainly cb.