re: Poker & Don't reraise if there is a short stack in front.
I see a few things wrong with this. One is that the blinds player with a small stack may not always shove and shouldn't unless they have something strong. They should know that if they raise all in here then the original raiser is priced in to call and you as the over caller of the initial raise is now really priced in to call. Yes they may at times think of it like a squeeze play but it will not work the same as a squeeze and they will get called often. That is not to say that maybe the blinds player is not picking up and this and will jam but just saying I would not count on the blinds player with a small stack to jam over.
Secondly, if we just call with our hand like AA and KK and especially if it is a min raise then we have a string chance of getting a lot of players in the pot. This will make playing post flop much harder and even though over time we will get more money this way when we have AA and KK we will also increase our variance considerably and put our self at risk of losing a big pot.
Lastly, the rule for the initial raiser not being able to re raise is only if the raiser in the blinds does not have enough to cover the amount that the initial raiser raised over the big blind amount. If the initial raiser raises to 2.5BB and the big blind jams 5BB over that then the initial raiser still has the opportunity to raise the pot since the raise by the initial raiser was only 1.5BB and the 5BB jam was a raise of 2.5 BB.
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