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But the way things were going at the table i made the choice on this paticular hand to limp with a good chance of stacking someone,
How would raising decrease your chance of stacking someone? In fact, would the fact that you've been aggro increase the amount of times and amount of money you will get paid by raising compared to normal? Thus is it not highly profitable top raise and bloat the pot with what is likely the best hand and what WILL be the best hand>
So you're going to FOLD IF YOU MISS A SET? So you're just throwing away money despite having the best hand? Now folding the best hand SOMETIMES, but not being able to wait until you have reason to suspect you're beat before contemplating a SUPER PREMIUM hand, is just scared money, suboptimal, and overall bad. You will not improve as a poker player until you are willing to put money in when there is a more than 35% chance you will lose the pot, though I argue you will probably win this pot more than 35% anyway.
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and on an unfavourable flop I can simply fold and lose the 2c i put in for the blind.
Again, more often than not, your hand will remain to be the best on the flop more often than not; it will win more than 50% showdown (70% in my case). As such, each big blind you put in the pot preflop and postflop will, not exactly, but roughly equate to 20% profit. Why would you NOT want to maximize this edge??
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The main point of this is people are commenting on my reasoning behind this hand and the way i interpreted things this was a better play 'at the time'. I may have been wrong to think that, but thats the feel i had at the time and i went with it.
You were wrong, and I hope I've explained why. As before, you have an edge, EXPLOIT IT.
The only reason not to jam the best hand is the value of DECEPTION. In this case, by raising, you do not gain from deception, you do not gain from folding out hands that will pay you off postflop, and villain is calling almost always after your raise anyway, ESPECIALLY since you've been raising the last 3 hands. One would argue that your limp here becomes even more suspicious since you've been so aggressive.
The idea that investing less money makes it easier to get away from is terrible. It makes no logical sense. If you're in a spot where calling down is -EV, it doesn't matter how much money you've invested. JJ is NOT a RIO (reverse implied odds) hand, and therefore there's no issue of that. What matters is if your raise is +EV vs his limp calling + BB's calling range, and whether this value is worth more than the "deception" of completing the SB.
Players at this level are so 1 level that deception counts for nothing, especially pre.
Finally, if villain's perception of your complete range as really wide since you didn't raise, this actually makes your hand a lot stronger, since it makes trips or botom or middle two pair a much more believable part of your range, and now if he has KT on T69 he will not stack off as easily due to SPR.
You want to make SPR good so you can get loads of value with your overpair, but also pot control with it when an overcard comes. If you're playing super deep, without control of the hand with BB's range as ATC, your diminishing your postflop edge vs fish, especially being OOP.
Ken?