I call with anything, often re-raise with QQ+ and AK depending on read and pretty much always go for the check/raise on the flop if I think I am ahead.


Here's an example of why mini-re-raises are extremely stupid.

zygystardust folded
DJ_Ponytale folded
AJD804 folded
Alcoholica folded
Jaike folded
Skatgubben folded
Stoneburg raised - $2.00
Nor349 raised - $3.75
Handyman1968 folded
Stoneburg called - $3.75

** Dealing the flop:

Guess who got stacked.

If he had raised to $6 I would have been out of there but there's just no way I am folding to a mini-reraise. Pot odds and implied odds are just too good.

I'm not calling with anything, but if my hand was worth opening for 4x and wasn't a total steal, then I'm pretty much insta-calling. I'll only reraise with KK/AA, UNLESS I have a really solid read on the guy (like pushing all in with JJ over this total LAG monkey, who donked off his stack by calling with TT). If I'm facing this situation, man the flop is tough times if you don't connect squarely: do you lead out with your overpair, or do you check raise hoping he can either get away from a bigger pair, or that he doesn't have one to start with? Do you check call and hope to get a cheap showdown? VERY tough decisions, each of them. But, I'm always calling with TT-QQ, and AK, though hoping to connect SQUARELY and stack them.

Here's one hand: I just got donked with AA vs Q6s when I put in a 7x raise from MP and got called twice. I reload and have a full 200max stack. 2 hands later I'm UTG+1 with QQ and bump to 6x and new(ish) guy to the table makes it 15x, button calls, and I'm getting my odds to call, so I do. Comes QJX rainbow (did a little dance on this flop)...and I naturally check to the raiser Who fires out just over 1/2 pot with $50, button pretty much insta calls. Normally I'd make it 3x the raise - so $150 - but I only had $170 left, so I push. Raiser thinks for maybe 1 second and calls, button insta calls. You can probably guess the raiser's hand no problem (AA), but what's the button got? JTs! I filled up on the river, though I didn't need it, and took the $580 pot. Nice. But to illustrate my point: this is exactly what you're looking for in calling...you have to figure that you're beat unless you hit your set...had it come J high...TOUGH times! I think I would've check folded unless he only bet 1/4 pot or so...in which case I may c/r to see where I stood...but your decisions are so tough with the overpair. Of course, the button was a total donk