A lot of times, to decrease the undesirable effect of a player catching up to my AK, AQ, AA, or KK, QQ, JJ, when placing my bets I will adopt a rushing strategy. What this means is that, provided my non-pair hands have hit, or if I have a pair, and there aren't any, or sometimes no more than one over card on the flop, I will play extremely quickly, with very large accompanying bets. This accomplishes a few things: First, if a player originally suspected us of bluffing, adopting this strategy almost always reinforces that false impression, and for the first two bets post flop, his/her immediate call answering your erroneously supposed bluff will, to him or her, ostensibly serve them to deter you from further bluff making, while in actuality, you are killing them, quickly, before they have a chance to think. Also, overthinking ourselves in this situation can lead to a place where we were ahead but our opponent catches up - a prime reason for getting stacked.
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Remember, though, this tactic only has value when you have sufficient information to pass its adoption threshold. It doesn't work if we are not ahead - unless we fortuitously (read: improbably) catch up to our opponent.
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