n3rv
Visionary
Silver Level
I can pick up tells pretty easily for when someone raises with any two high cards as opposed to any high pocket pair.
However, I have went out of my last two tourneys by doing this. A basic example would be a player to the left raising far too high with K8o-JTo, in an attempt to crush the rest of the table. I get given pocket 7s-pocket 9s, and re-raise all-in thinking that they really can't/shouldn't call, and if they do call I have 4-5% equity over them anyway.
For whatever reasons they do call but this small advantage hasn't held up when it matters the most. In your experience is it worth it / does it really hold up most of the time? Also, heads-up, if you had a read on someone with Ace High, would you raise them all-in with pocket 2s? At what point do you consider the correct call in terms of equity not mattering?
However, I have went out of my last two tourneys by doing this. A basic example would be a player to the left raising far too high with K8o-JTo, in an attempt to crush the rest of the table. I get given pocket 7s-pocket 9s, and re-raise all-in thinking that they really can't/shouldn't call, and if they do call I have 4-5% equity over them anyway.
For whatever reasons they do call but this small advantage hasn't held up when it matters the most. In your experience is it worth it / does it really hold up most of the time? Also, heads-up, if you had a read on someone with Ace High, would you raise them all-in with pocket 2s? At what point do you consider the correct call in terms of equity not mattering?