Well, I'm still liking this move and am quite convinced that it's making me money under the current circumstances. I do think it require extremely high table credibility to be effective, however.

But I have run into one problem that mainly just "looked bad" to me: The other night I was getting quite a few of these LP raising hands, and most of the time, everything was clicking very nicely.

But once I raised KJo in LP after a few limpers to $25 and got a re-raise for $35 more. I folded, as is obviously "correct" in terms of the hand. I can't really hit anything in which I'm confident, barring some kind of high straight. Opponent in actuality turns over AK, on which he was making a limp-re-raise. I doubt that he was specifically "targetting" me, as my raise was still rare enough to be unreliable.

But I wonder whether the $35 wouldn't have been worth it in "intangible equity." Admittedly, the table has no idea what I really had. I honestly am not terribly enthusiastic about calling a re-raise with AK, even if it does happen that I'm up against QQ, simply because I don't know where I'm at (by contrast, I have no problem at all calling a little re-raise like that with QQ, or for that matter any pair, because I can try to set).

My actual response was simply to turn the loose LP raise off for a while.

Does anyone here (palman? any other strong LAGs?) think that calling the $35 is worth it--possibly betting 3/4 pot to a check, folding to a bet? Or maybe better, betting here to a check on any flop with no A or K.

Quite aside from this particular hand, I think getting a limp-re-raise is most likely to make A and K danger cards. If they did happen to limp-re-raise QQ, then so be it (after a flop bet, I certainly wouldn't get in any deeper regardless, barring a miracle flop).

The other dimension here is that I really don't want to show my KJo raise from LP. The more they're kept guessing, the better off I am. And folding PF is certainly one way not to show. But it looks awfully weak to that little re-raise... But I guess if they start making a habit out of it, then one solution is just to go back to tight raising... (this has only happened once, so I'm not worried about it yet)

Yeah, the guy sitting next to me speculated that I had something like 55, with which I definitely would have called...

I'll play to the set against a deep stack any time.

You might call suited connectors too for that reraise.

I like the fold of KJ though...so easily dominated, you're not even sure what you wanna hit on the flop.