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[fireman664]

"Gap theory" is the (mostly NLHE tournament applied) theory that it takes a stronger hand to CALL a raise than it takes to RAISE with.

an example would be, middle rounds of a tourney and your in late MP with K [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]J [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]

If know one has raised before you, you should raise. If there has been a raise before you (assuming there hasnt been callers too) you should probably fold (I throw in probably because in this example we are discounting reads, and table image ect)

Hope this helped (a really good definition and examples can be found in "tournament poker for advanced players"