February 15, 2007
From the desk of Jane Galt:You know what I hate about Aaron Haspel? I mean, aside from the fact that in Texas Hold 'Em, he always makes me pay to see the flop? I hate the fact that he doesn't write enough. Use this space to mercilessly ridicule him until he is driven back to blogging from sheer shame. I mean, really, Aaron . . . last full post in early January?
Posted by Jane Galt at February 15, 2007 5:58 PM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound linksHe's definetly a quality over quantity type of guy. The little off hand comments and links on the side make up for the jonesin' a bit though.
Jane,
You must be willing to punish blind raisers occasionally, even if you have to bluff to do it.
I strongly agree with Yancy.
Imagine yourself sitting on the big blind after he raised the size of the pot from the button and everyone else has folded (including the small blind after him). If both blinds will fold more than 50% of the time (and continue to do so even after learning that he does this a lot), then he can make that raise without looking at his cards. In fact, if you fold anywhere near that much (say just 50% of the time yourself combined with 60% folds for the small blind, for a 30% chance of bluffing the two of you out), he will still have a huge profit from these raises if you're only reraising a small fraction of the time. After all, he will win some of the hands where cards are dealt (including some of the hands where you reraise).
Because of the advantage he gains by bluffing here if you are too passive, you have to reraise VERY often (probably most of the time you enter the hand at all) if he is stealing your blinds most of the time.
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