Quote Originally Posted by RoyalProdigy
Hand 1... I dont think i shoulda flat called because hes aggresive he woulda double barreled. I shoulda jus tossed em
How is your hand faring against his range right now? If he is really bluffy, QQ is doing pretty freaking good. "Because he's aggressive he woulda double barreled" is exactly what you want, and is precisely why you don't want to raise. By raising, you spend as much as you would have to call both his flop and turn bets, and you still might be laying down the best hand before seeing another card. Instead, if you call the flop, you give him a chance to keep bluffing, and for the same price you can get all the way to the river with a chance to spike your Q, see a couple more Ks, hit a running straight, or whatever else.

On hand 1, if I have AJ and think I'm ahead, I will raise the flop. If I have QQ, though, I will happily bluff catch, because he usually doesn't have many outs to catch up to you when he's behind, and based on your reads he doesn't have to be ahead very often.

Let me say this one more time because it still surprises me that so many people don't grasp it. YOU WANT AGGRESSIVE VILLAINS TO FIRE MULTIPLE BETS AT YOU WITH A WORSE HAND. IT MAKES NO SENSE TO RAISE WITH GOOD SHOWDOWN VALUE IN ORDER TO PREVENT THIS.

Oh, and it's so fun those times where you are behind and miraculously catch up. Like villain has KQ and the Q hits the river. You stack him, and he is super-pissed because you were calling him down with worse and got there. You think he was a chip geyser before?