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Dealing with re-raises

Postby Aisthesis » Sun Mar 11, 2007 5:23 pm

Here's something I'm starting to get a read on in the casino game and am unsure how to deal with.

One player is a clear AA re-raiser. Most (including me) don't normally re-raise AA for the obvious reasons. But here are some interesting re-raises in a 1/2/5 game:

Someone has made it $25 to go, then a guy named Al in SB re-raises to $125. I ended up losing $25 on a decent KK here (folding PF), but Al had AQJ6ds (and spiked an A, which held up in a 3-way pot). I've never seen him re-raise AA like that.

Another guy started off the session with a re-raise to the same amount on KQJ9 ss or ds, can't remember for sure. He also ended up winning in a short-handed pot.

Any suggestions for dealing with such players if you have effective stack-depth of $350 or so? Fairly obvious is not coming out of hiding with AA until you can push, but I do wonder about pushing strong KK to that type as well. ds wraps seem to me better just to call with and see what the flop looks like before deciding whether to go all the way.
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Postby Ojingo » Sun Mar 11, 2007 5:35 pm

Well, if he makes it 125 with 300 or so behind then I'm definitely 4betting my AA. In fact, I'll 4bet AA as soon as that enables me to get more than 1/3 of my stack in.
With KK I don't know, I guess that depends on what you expect him to call you with? If I have AKKx once suited or so I'm happy to 4bet preflop.
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Postby Aisthesis » Sun Mar 11, 2007 5:55 pm

Yeah, against Al particularly, I think the AKKx with one flush draw (even to K) is probably good enough, as it seems like he is re-raising on any decent 3-legged dog ds with an A.

Against the other guy, who seems to like big ds wraps, I'm not really sure that the A is necessary, but preferably hands like KK86ds, maybe, to pick a fairly weak one that might still fly.

I'm not completely sure I'm ready to do this just yet, as I'm not completely certain about my read. But these guys play the game pretty regularly, particularly Al, who may or may not call. I think the ds wrap guy will pretty definitely call a push, but I would think I'd be favorite (and that's one reason for my continuing semi-short buy-in for this game).

I just need to be a little more certain that I'm not getting involved with AA any significant amount of time--just picked up this read last night, so I don't view it as rock-solid just yet.
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