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Originally Posted by au4all
Why do you feel like you need to stack off on most flops? There's no law that raisers need to stack off and callers can play good poker after the flop.
If you fold 90% of the flops and 10% of the time someone calls a pot-sized bet you've broken even. You should be able to do far better than that.
In general I try to make a bet large enough that I am able to usually "buy the button".
Nobody said stack off on most flops. You're inferring things that aren't there.
I learned the hard way not to raise a large % of your stack with mediocre holdings like AJ ESPECIALLY when you're not in CO or BTN. A $35 raise is 17 percent of your stack.(at 100bbs) What are you doing if you miss? With just 2 callers pre, that should be a $60 c-bet on a lot of boards. Now you're $100 in with A high. You see where I'm going? $25 is fine, but should only be done with good position behind it.
I feel it's the same with 88-1010 and your AJ hand. They are a lot easier to play in position.