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- SheepMoose
  
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  - 05.06.2009, 01:06
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  I'm currently railing a NL10/20$ deepstack game with antes on fulltilt. The players are incredible, a lot of the things they do actually make sense. I don't get one little thing though.
  
  I saw a hand where there was a raise pre-flop to 3.5BB's ($70). If someone was to re-raise I would've expected them to raise to a flat $210. But instead the second person raised to $258.
  
  Why do they raise more in these sittuations? Everywhere else seems to flat three betting or shoving.
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- Semesa
  
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  - 05.06.2009, 02:16
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  i've seen this being done before and often wondered why.
  
  The only reason i can think of is that they are just annoying the initial raiser by raising a stupid amount and making odds calculations harder.
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- HannesNL
  
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  - 05.06.2009, 09:05
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  Because if you're deep, you faster get odds to hit something big ( SC's --> Big draws- 2pair, Pocketpairs--> Sets ) They raise the initial raisesize often more to NOT give them the odds
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- SheepMoose
  
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  - 05.06.2009, 11:33
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  Originally posted by timkroes
  Because if you're deep, you faster get odds to hit something big ( SC's --> Big draws- 2pair, Pocketpairs--> Sets ) They raise the initial raisesize often more to NOT give them the odds
  Should this be applied to the low stakes games?
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- Fongie
  
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  - 05.06.2009, 11:51
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  Yes, if you are deep stacked it applies to all games.
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- SheepMoose
  
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  - 06.06.2009, 04:16
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  Originally posted by Fongie
  Yes, if you are deep stacked it applies to all games.
  Is there any method to this madness or should I just 3bet to a random number?
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- jmackenzie
  
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  - 06.06.2009, 20:29
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  well in general you'd want to raise/ 3bet more than usual because theres antes at the table making the pot bigger.
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- ihufa
  
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  - 06.06.2009, 22:11
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  If your in position you can 3bet to 3* the raise, if your in the blinds you will be out of position for the rest of the hand if they call, therefore u prefer them to fold thus u make the bet slightly bigger
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