Negreanu's preflop call of 75s

[felson]

Negreanu's Cardplayer article discusses his play of 75s in the Championship Poker at the Plaza. He has 22k in this hand and is opening from the button.

At the $150-$300 level, my standard raise is usually $800, so that's what I made it. Annie Duke was in the small blind with close to $40,000 in chips, which was a very good-sized stack at that point in the tournament. After an awkward hesitation, she reraised to $2,800. The big blind folded, and it would cost me $2,000 more if I wanted to see the flop. Anytime I can get 2-1 pot odds, implied odds, and position with a suited connector, you can count me in!

[Men the Master]

Based on his read, he should have reraised pre-flop with an amount that would convince Annie that he is willing to pot commit himself.

[ClaytonN]

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Based on his read, he should have reraised pre-flop with an amount that would convince Annie that he is willing to pot commit himself.

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Yea, except 75s isn't the kind of hand to do it with. He uses it for bigger pots to take stabs at, not for a PF confrontation with.

[fnurt]

what read? did I miss something?

[La Brujita]

He discusses his read in the rest of the article, linked above in the original post.

[jomatty]

the idea is to take a relatively cheap flop and break someone, not show them that your pot commited and get a lot of chips commited with a very veak hand if played hot and cold. After the flop his plan obviously changed but that was because he had hit the kind of flop he was hoping for and a situation called for a strong semibluff. In this scenario a preflop reraise would have been a very bad play
matty

[Smoothcall]

Yeah but calling 2k more isnt getting to see cheap flop.

[Daliman]

Yes, but barely over 10% of his stack and in position. Not for the faint-hearted, to be sure.

[Smoothcall]

Problem is unless he flops trips, 2 pair, straight, or a flush. He's gonna be put in yucky spot throughout the rest of hand.

[Daliman]

Ya, but he didn't, and he wasn't.