Quote Originally Posted by TNreg View Post
Facing a Raise from Early or Middle Position

This is not a spot where I want to call a lot because I will bleed money. The number one rule is to know thy villain. I would much rather 3bet than cold call and go headsup, OOP, without the initiative. If I don't feel comfortable 3betting, then I should probably just fold. This also isn't a place to set mine because it's much harder to get paid off. Over-calling in multiway pots is fine with medium pocket pairs and big drawing hands like KJs as long as I don't forget why I'm playing them. Stacking off with KJ in the BB on K97r in a 4-way raised pot is spew. Tread carefully with marginal hands.
I didn't overly agree with part of this section. The first part implies that because we're facing a very strong range that we shouldn't be cold calling and instead 3b or folding (I DO agree with this). BUT the second part, suggesting that set mining is not profitable and it will be hard to get paid off, is somewhat contradictory to the first part.

Either their range is strong and they will have a hard time folding to pressure (such that our set mining IS profitable), or their range is marginal/weak and we won't get paid off with our sets (in which case, we shouldn't be as worried about cold calling IP etc).

Personally I think the former is true. I would rather set mine and EP raiser than an LP raiser.