Quote Originally Posted by siknd
hmm. i make changes if i lose a lot of money.

in ep with ak, an open raise will chase all the hands you want to play against, and identify all those you dont.

an openraise makes c-betting awkward when you are out of position to a flat caller(s). so you need to improve 9/10

if someone wakes up with jacks or queens in later p, and they play the hand properly, it may be difficult to even see a flop. played inversly, you can usually CALL most raises from a big pair if the pot hasnt been spiked by (yourself) or another player. this is just simple pot-management with any drawing hand.

finally, i like to 'see whats out there' just calling gives me the option to reraise later in the street if i think isolation is a good idea.
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All of these ideas have merit, although we could spin up a 100 post thread arguing over many of them. Heck maybe we'll go there, but I have bigger plans than AK.

Lets say it's ideal to limp 22-99 pre-flop and folding is throwing away money. Lets say we also would like to limp stuff like AQ/AJs+/KQs/AK and we'll make the leap of faith that that is also the ideal way to play those hands.

TT-JJ are close, but probably still limps per that view of the world.

Once you make those assertions, why would we raise AA-QQ? If we didn't, they would certainly add some teeth to "iso-raise me at your own risk."

All of this changes when it's folded to us in the HJ or HJ+1 of course...