okay so this guy and me had some history, I took a stack from him when we got it all-in preflop KK vs AA and I drew out on him. I have been playing back at him quite a bit and varying the size of my raises. He had the button when I was in the BB so I was three betting him light and stuff. On to the hand... I thought maybe a big bet would mess with him preflop. What does he have here? and what is your plan for the flop? Villian is running at 16/11/2.5


Full Tilt Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.10/$0.25
5 players


Stack sizes:
UTG: $25
CO: $60.10
Button: $24.65
SB: $28.80
TableTiger1: $62.10

Pre-flop: (5 players) TableTiger1 is BB with
2 folds, Button raises to $1, SB folds, TableTiger1 raises to $7, Button calls.

Flop: ($14.1, 2 players)
TableTiger1 does ?

Thats raise you made PF is a disaster. You already had it heads up, so why announce our hand? I would just call that raise and make a nice size C/R on the flop.

why is the preflop raise so bad?
what hand could villain have, which is +ev for him to call with?

It is so bad becase we just said " I have AA or KK" with that raise when it IS ALREADY HEADS UP. If there was a few callers then fine. Now on this flop (that is only Q high) even if the villan hits his TP/TK or TP/GK he is going to be very cautious and if he misses he will fold to our CB altogether. If we just called he would have no reason to think we have an overpair to the board. This way we can C/R the flop and have a VERY good chance of getting his stack as he was not alerted to our strength. Yes it is gonna be -EV for him to call PF. But I am giving up on that small edge EV wise I have on him PF, to push my MUCH larger edge on the flop.

The preflop raise is bad because its 7x our opponents raise which is silly. It should have been reraised preflop and it should've been $3-$4.

Yepper, 3x is the usual standard.