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Originally Posted by Smoola1981
You guys are hilarious sidelining this thread with a discussion about limp-reraising strategy.
Just give OP advice on the turn play. It is pretty obvious that OP is lost on the postflop strategy because he admitted himself that he was raising flop "to take it down" which isn't the thought process of a good poker player.
He doesn't want a lecture about his preflop gamble.
I don't think anyone's lecturing, but I will point out that very often in threads on this forum, the stated question is about post-flop decisions, but often the reason you're in a sticky position is what you did pre-flop. And so I think it's completely legitimate to talk pre-flop to understand root cause of why we are here. And also becuase geometrical mathematical properties of betting in poker, the earlier you make a mistake in a hand the more likely it is to effect EV.
I don't think I've ever limp/rr, but in this specific OP gave reasonable reasons about why it might be a legit strategy in this case, and of course it's occasionally not going to work.