Originally posted by soucy
As said a re-reaise is mostly a range of TT+, AQ+ .. maybe AJs. Against such a range our JJ is a slightly underdog and TT has only 40% equity.
Well, many people reraise or stealreraise with complete trash hands, so you are often against a looser range.
Without a read I'm going broke because I think it's more likely to run into looser range than into a tighter one.
Now if you really think you are against the range you stated, it's still good though.
You have 'only' 40 % equity and you would like to go all-in preflop with 50 or more in a standard situation, but in this case you get better pod odds.
Say you raised to 4 bb and have 15 behind (very standard for a sss in my opinion). Then you need to pay 15 and you will win 39.5 (sb + bb + 19x2) and you need 38 % equity for this move to be profitable. If you raised more (say 5 bb because there was a limper in front of you) or you have smaller stack left, the push becomes even more +EV.
With a strong read that you are against a player who 3-bets very tight (for exampleif he is a strict sss player himself), you can fold TT if you want to lower your variance.
Originally posted by soucy
Against a re-raise i'm folding TT/JJ most of the time because i think there are many other situations where i can put in my money with much more equity.
Well, this sort of thinking makes no sense to me in a cash game. Just play all the situations where it is +EV.
In a tournament you can fold even though push would be +EV, because you don't want to risk your tournament life and believe that your edge allows you to outplay the villain later anyway, but in cash games this is just wasting money in a long run.
With a conservative BRM you have no reason to fear variance. :-)
Oh - one more thing. All I was talking about goes for a short stack strategy as Tim64 and barrelhead seem to be talking about it, I might be wrong though. Smileyphil's post seems to be about bss.
