Against a thinking TAG.....

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Bradx,

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I have thought about this for literally 30 minutes and I haven't come up with a good reason for him not to play Ax slow.

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Having said that, most people will play Ax in the manner that the villian played this hand (even better opponents).

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Aren't these two statements contradictory? If we assume he's playing very well, why wouldn't he choose the best play?

I really don't like analyzing cognizant tag vs. cognizant tag hands because of this sort of 'hall of mirrors' effect where each guy knows what the other guy knows he knows they know. It seems to me that if we're doing anything less than several levels of thought here the thinking tag wouldn't want to raise an ace here.

[Eeegah]

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I really don't like analyzing cognizant tag vs. cognizant tag hands because of this sort of 'hall of mirrors' effect where each guy knows what the other guy knows he knows they know. It seems to me that if we're doing anything less than several levels of thought here

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I suddenly have the urge to build up a resistance to Iocane powder.

Just to really complicate the discussion, this was the real hand. I'm really on the button.

Party Poker 2/4 Hold'em (10 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx

Preflop: Hero is Button with A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">7 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, BB calls.

Flop: (4.50 SB) K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
BB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">BB raises</font>, Hero calls.

Turn: (4.25 BB) T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">BB bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, BB calls.

River: (8.25 BB) Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
BB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">BB raises</font>, Hero calls.

Final Pot: 12.25 BB