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1st - these people losing respect for your game is a *GOOD* thing. It's hard to swallow your pride and let people think you're a donk, but if you do you'll show more profits. 2nd - I don't think your call against this player in the second hand was so terrible. He had been able to push you off of hands with big bets before, so I'd have thought he was trying to do the same thing here. Based on his stealing of your blinds, he had you labeled in his mind as tight-weak. what do you do to tight weak players

gotcha; essentially you were playing the jacks here like a small-medium pair; set or fold. nothing wrong with that considering the preflop bet was only 5% of your stack. GL! Bill

Laugh :) "my image is super tight. I have limped in or raised the last 17 hands" nice.

on second thought his call with the 5's probably was fine. We'd need to know the chip stack sizes to be sure though. He had already put in 3x the BB, which I was just re-reading to be 12k. So he raised 36k so there was now 6k sb, 12k bb and his 36k raise plus any ante's. That's a big pot and likely pushed his pot odds into an automatic call.

Laugh on the 55's being 100% - nice :) also I agree that the 39% statistic isn't correct.

4 handed with huge blinds to me means that 3x raise could be almost any hand, especially coming from the chip leader. I like the reraise with AQ. in any case he should have folded the 5's - at best he's a coin flip there and doesn't have you outchipped by much. Good play, tough break imo.

I seem to remember harrington giving a number of up to 20%, then between 20% and 30% as being very aggressive and over 30% being stupid. like others have mentioned though I don't think you should shoot for a specific number.. if you're at a weak table full of loose/passive players with 4 or 5 people to see the flop every hand, you can see the flop more often profitably. Also of course if you're playing 6 handed or less you need to loosen your starting requirements or you're going to get killed.

Just one comment; you called his raise pre-flop, and I don't see anything on the flop that should make you feel a preflop reraiser improved. Since you'd count on him making a continuation bet whether he hit or not I don't like your fold, or I don't like your initial call preflop. I'd either fold preflop or reraise his bet after the flop here.

what kind of a game is this? if it's a 6 person SNG, I fold if it's a 10 person SNG, I fold if it's a tournament, I call. I assume it's not a cash game because everyone started with 1500 chips, but just for posterity I'd call there too. 5 players all in sounds to me like lots of big pocket pairs and big aces. you could have a huge chance to beat these because of their hands interfering with each other, however, in a 6 person SNG, folding almost guarantees you a money finish. Not quite as much in

wow. way too many petty and childish responses to this. In any case, mn808, this wasn't a good fold. In a cash game you should be willing to risk your chips with a relatively small edge, because you can buy back in, and in the long run you will make money on these small edges. Play the odds in a cash game and ignore the variance. AA will make money in the long run against any other hand, so you have to play it. The reason not to play it would be if $700 is a significant part of your bankroll, in