Quote Originally Posted by sauce123
pocket fours- Im not saying that calling a small raise oop with connectors is +ev, there are a ton of factors which amount to "sometimes it is, sometimes it isnt" depending on opponent, stack sizes, metagame etc. What im saying is that if we put ourselves in the mindset of a:

"Villain is 25/16, tough regular. Does not like to give away pots. Seen him raise light from UTG countless times. I had AJs, which is garbage here, but decided to mix it up and isolate (usually I would of course fold). My image is TAG."

hes probably thinking a few things about you
1) ur raising with AK, AQs, JJ+.
2) u guys r slightly over 100 BB deep
3) he thinks he can outplay u postflop most likely
4) because of 1,2,3 he thinks his implied odds r most likely stacks

Therefore hes not gonna lay down any hand with str8/flush/set value to you when you lay him this price which is why you have to make a big bet on the turn as you are crushing his range here and you may even get some value off of KJ QJs if he decides to play them (which he wont if hes good, but whatever).
I clearly didn't think that I'm far ahead of his range, which in hindsight seems quite obvious... Thanks for your help sauce