You have KQ in MP (raiser to your left) and limp, raiser raises, 1 caller. Now even I will limp re-raise. What I don't like about being to his left in this situation is that I'm re-raising into a field of 7 other players with completely unknown hands and who certainly aren't laying down AK here, probably not AQ, etc.
In the scenario outlined, I'll probably still just flat call if there are more than 2 other limpers simply because a lot of players try to trap on big hands with position, and I again don't mind getting involved with the raiser but am worried about the rest of the table.
So, let's take KQ with a few more players seeing the flop, and I flat call to raiser's right. Flop comes K64 or whatever. Now, if raiser will frequently CB, I check. Raiser bets. Ok, now if someone else raises that bet, I just quietly fold here (I figure the minimum hand they'll have is a split pot with me, and I lose to everything else). But if the rest of the table folds or we even maybe have 1 flat caller, I'll check-raise.
What this does is get your AK (or AQ on a Q-high board) question marks out of the way by USING the raiser to find out if anyone else has a hand.Statistics: Posted by Aisthesis — Sat Jul 15, 2006 10:15 am
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