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Originally Posted by DK Barrel
Raising an absurd amount just to avoid giving an opponent correct implied odds to set mine is absurd. You are giving up so much value from weak hands that are drawing nearly dead. Also you can just not pay off your whole stack when someone who is folding 90% of hands while watching movies on his tablet wakes up and raises turn
It's not absurd if the villains are willing to call the "big" raise preflop. A raise of $40 in a straddled pot with limpers / a 3bet to $50 in a pot that already has ~$25 are hardly absurd at my loose table and I'd expect action most of the time. However, you are correct that there will be times where using this method of offering poor 8:1 implied odds will create too large a raise size to think it will be called when stacks become much deeper (but here we're playing with 100bb stacks, so that isn't an issue).
You realize the SPR in these hands are 3 and lol 2, right? We probably shouldn't even be facing a raise on the turn because we should be all-in already.
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Last edited by gobbledygeek; 05-09-2017 at 11:05 AM.
