Quote Originally Posted by dsaxton
You can make an argument that your opponent is more likely to have nothing than a hand on the flop, and so if you're willing to bluff, you're justified in calling his raise with essentially any two cards. I'm not necessarily advocating this approach, but saying that a case can be made for it.
I think you're right, but to me it applies more to heads-up (or at least isolated going to the flop) than a ring game with 3 or 4 calling. One of the hands most likely to call any pre-flop raise is a pocket pair, and those hands have something even before you do. If the flop comes out a bunch of low cards, you may be right that the original raiser's AK or AQ is no good, but Mr. Pocket 8s may be grinning from ear to ear. In short, to employ this as a winning strategy, I'd prefer to be the only caller, or be the one doing the raising before the flop. It can be awfully hard to bluff a player off an overpair, even if he wasn't the original raiser, and his pair is 8s to a board of 2 4 6.