Sounds to me like someone has a case of the weak tight jitters.
If someone has my AJ beaten then big deal, it wont be the first time. However considering people saw me raise KT the previous hand, that's the perfect situation to be picking up a playable hand the very next deal. I love getting no respect when I raise, because over the long term I will be earning money with AJ from that position. It's more likely if you raise preflop the next hand it's more likely that someone will cold call you with a worse hand than reraise you with a better hand. This is because AJ likely is the best hand and if what you claim is true, you will get called by any suited ace, KQ KJ, plus obviously all the lower pocket pairs that you flip a coin with but because of the dead money in the blinds you're both correct to see a flop. If we turn it around, players are more likely to fold the next hand since they will realise you know they don't respect you, so if you are raising you will have a big hand. And that's exactly what happened, you didn't play AJ because you feared it wasn't a big enough hand. I've seen that play a lot of times before where a player gets lucky trying to steal, and the next hand gets a monster and takes down an even bigger pot from the players not respecting him. Yet he knew he needed a big hand from there on in since he would get called, so if he keeps betting it's probably not because he wants to steal another one...
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Date: 2006-01-26 11:24 am (UTC)If someone has my AJ beaten then big deal, it wont be the first time. However considering people saw me raise KT the previous hand, that's the perfect situation to be picking up a playable hand the very next deal. I love getting no respect when I raise, because over the long term I will be earning money with AJ from that position. It's more likely if you raise preflop the next hand it's more likely that someone will cold call you with a worse hand than reraise you with a better hand. This is because AJ likely is the best hand and if what you claim is true, you will get called by any suited ace, KQ KJ, plus obviously all the lower pocket pairs that you flip a coin with but because of the dead money in the blinds you're both correct to see a flop.
If we turn it around, players are more likely to fold the next hand since they will realise you know they don't respect you, so if you are raising you will have a big hand. And that's exactly what happened, you didn't play AJ because you feared it wasn't a big enough hand.
I've seen that play a lot of times before where a player gets lucky trying to steal, and the next hand gets a monster and takes down an even bigger pot from the players not respecting him. Yet he knew he needed a big hand from there on in since he would get called, so if he keeps betting it's probably not because he wants to steal another one...