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Originally Posted by sippin_criss
I do the exact opposite, since from ep you're more likely to get callers and be OOP with a difficult postflop situation, and if someone shoves you usually have to fold (w/ aq and a 14+ BB stack) whereas when you open raise in LP guys are more likely to reshove on you wider. Thoughts?
The reason I raise rather than shove from EP is for these reasons:
1. It gives you chance to evaluate your options preflop. You can still get it in versus a loose re-shover, or you can fold if some nits go to war after you, and you still have a playable stack.
2. Raising in EP generally gets more respect, and so I could even argue you generate the same amount of FE by raising rather than shoving (obv villain dependent) but you don't have to risk your whole stack to do it, which means you get the benefit of #1 above.
3. By shoving from EP you have to get through far more players than you do in LP, and so it is inherently less +ev to shove from EP than it is from LP it may even be -ev.
The reason I shove from LP rather than raise is:
1. Too many people reshove you when your 2.5x it from LP, and raise-calling isn't ideal with AQo, I mean it's not bad, and if they're reshoving very wide then it's great, but more often than not they're not reshoving that wide, just wide enough that it sucks to have to call it off with AQ here.
2. It's gonna be +ev, wheras in EP it probably was breakeven at best.
What do you think? Fkked up logic?