I am not sure why I raised so little on the flop. Looking back, I
speculate that my subconscious thinking perhaps was that he'd sometimes just call and see a turn, and check to me. In
other words, I perhaps felt raising just a little might make him
inclined to put me on a smaller pair than his and “trap”
me (in his mind). So, I might have had a glimmer of a
non-verbalized thought at the time that he'd just call
sometimes instead of reraising — effectively allowing me to pull
the beginner's “raise for a free card” trick some of the
time.
I believe, however, that tuning the raise to induce him to fold isn't
really the place to go in thinking about this hand. He folds AK for
even a minimum raise, and he's staying in with everything else
regardless. It's just a matter of whether he reraises or calls, and
how he plays the turn based on the raise made. I assumed no fold equity in my post-hand analysis because I think I had none (save against a feeler AK bet).
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Date: 2006-03-17 16:22 (UTC)I am not sure why I raised so little on the flop. Looking back, I speculate that my subconscious thinking perhaps was that he'd sometimes just call and see a turn, and check to me. In other words, I perhaps felt raising just a little might make him inclined to put me on a smaller pair than his and “trap” me (in his mind). So, I might have had a glimmer of a non-verbalized thought at the time that he'd just call sometimes instead of reraising — effectively allowing me to pull the beginner's “raise for a free card” trick some of the time.
I believe, however, that tuning the raise to induce him to fold isn't really the place to go in thinking about this hand. He folds AK for even a minimum raise, and he's staying in with everything else regardless. It's just a matter of whether he reraises or calls, and how he plays the turn based on the raise made. I assumed no fold equity in my post-hand analysis because I think I had none (save against a feeler AK bet).