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Originally Posted by paratrooper99
Would the amount be different with 200 bb? If so, how much?
This is where we'll have to figure out our options.
In keeping with 1/2, let's say effective stack is $400 (200bb).
We limp AA, there's a raise to $10, and 3 callers. If we're targeting IO of 8:1, that would mean we should 3bet to about $65. Obviously it's a decent sized 3bet for 1/2 but it's not a horrendously overbig one given this much money already in the pot; worse case scenario is that everyone folds but we still collect $40 rake free and move on to the next hand. If anyone calls, great, trivial postflop stackoff.
But now let's say we limp AA, there's a raise to $10, and everyone folds to us. To target IO of 8:1, we'd need to raise to about $60, but that's a pretty massive limp/reraise against just $10 in the pot, and we probably mostly just take down $10 (not nearly as profitable as taking down $40 risk free as in the example above). But being this deep, we have options. We could just flat. This will create a $20 pot with $390 behind, so a big huge SPR 19.5, where we're obviously not going to stack off with just an overpair (so even though we're offering huge IO of 40:1 we're never going to actually give our opponent that unless we just suck so bad postflop). We could continue to underrep and play it passively or whatever postflop and hope maybe for 2 bets going in or 3 small bets and play a small but profitable pot, all the while not getting in a difficult SPR situation. Also opponent dependent; against a fish, we're perfectly fine seeing a flop; OOP against a solid player, maybe we're more fine with collecting the $10 preflop and moving on.
Cliffs: Aim for a low committing SPR where we've offered poor IO to our opponent(s) OR sometimes (especially when there is no real significant dead money in the pot preflop) just aim for a very high SPR (where we have lots of room for postflop poker with an underrepped hand without being handcuffed by committing SPRs).
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