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In a Holdem game, let us imagine you are dealt (8,8). You make a raise, and one opponent makes a minimum reraise. With only two of you remaining in the pot, I feel you should call and take a flop in this situation, even though the minimum reraise should have set alarm bells ringing.

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Let us say the flop comes down (6s,7c,10d). In this position, you could certainly decide to make a raise I feel, but you would have to be worried if your opponent decides to reraise. This could easily tie in with the small preflop reraise, as them holding a big pair. In most situations, I like to advocate raising to find out where you are, but then checking in this position would put you in the following position. Firstly, your opponent might check behind you giving you the chance to hit your inside straight draw or a set. If this does happen, it is clear that you would rather make the straight than the set, but even if your set does hit, I wouldn’t be overly fearful of the straight. Unless you are up against pocket nines, I cannot see your opponent reraising you preflop with any hand containing a nine.

Another point to consider if you decide to check on the flop, is that your opponent could easily put out a tester bet if they were holding a hand such as (A,K). If you are faced with a raise, then putting in a reraise, will often force your opponent off the pot I feel. You might ask, well what happens if the opponent comes over the top with another reraise? In this position I think you can safely say you are behind in the hand, probably to a bigger pocket pair, and you can then say almost certainly, you have Six outs. Work out the pot odds from there and make the best decision, but usually, folding will be the right choice.

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