FW 5/10, KK hand

[thesharpie]

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I was almost certain I had MP2 beat, and I had a good idea of his exact holding given the action. It was 50-50 whether I had the button beat, so my decision came down to calling or raising.



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I think that this reason is the reason for just calling and inducing the button to overcall. I could be wrong, but if we raise, the button folds, and mp2 calls we get the same amount of money as if we call and get the button to *hopefully* call. Also, by not raising, we don't open ourselves to a three bet for a hand that we aren't laying down

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We also don't get any more than 1BB by just calling, and might even get 0BB if the button won't overcall with something like QQ. MP2 is very likely to call a bet so I don't think we have to worry about making 0BB more by raising, and the only hands that beat us are hands that wouldn't be played like this given the reads.