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Originally Posted by bobncsu325
I thought by only making it $20 more, he'd call w/ all his garbage hands, and his higher end range in which he would open (AK/AQ/QQ/JJ/1010/AJ) he might even 4bet.
The small raise will get called wide, but a 4 bet would be pretty rare and specific to the history between you and villain. The problem with doing this is that you have announced to everybody that you have a good hand. Now you have to play this OOP with a fairly low SPR in a situation where villain isn't going broke with just one pair unless they are terrible. Your just inviting villain to call with garbage, flop two pair+ and stack you because you can't get away from your over pair.
This ends up being the sort of bad pot builder that looks like it makes money but is -EV in the long run. You win more slightly larger pots, but you get stacked when things go bad. You have to win that extra $20/$30 a lot to cover the times you get stacked for $200+.