Quote Originally Posted by Irisheyes
Think of how much value we are laeving on the table when we fold AJ in the BB because of a raise from a button player who raises maybe 30% of his hands on the Button. Often we have the best hand and even have him dominated alot if he raises Ax type hands as I think alot of people do. Because of this I think folding is not an option.

So between calling and raising which is the better play?

If I call, yes the pot is small etc. but I find myself missing and check folding over 60% of the time. If I attempt not check folding (ie. playing back with A high, which is the best hand alot of the time) when I miss, I still find myself playing a big pot OOP with a weak hand.This was your reason for not reraising, you didn't like doing this. If I simply check fold the flop when I miss, the button raiser gets the best of it almost as much as when I fold preflop.

The only other option is to reraise. Fair enough, it does mean that I play a big pot OOP but at least this way I have the inititive in the hand and I put pressure on the other guy to make a hand. Most of the time he wont and I can take the (big) pot.

Also I think that when I reraise someone preflop and they call, alot of their range is mid-low pocket pairs. This comes back to Lukies "hypothetical question" post. Most of the time they miss on the flop and I get the best of it. When they do hit, I have a hand that is easy to get away from. They have false implied odds preflop because I am repping AA/KK, thus I am forcing a mistake from them.

Reraising preflop also has shania implications. As people see my reraising range increace, thier calling range will increace in tandem. This potentially allows my AA hands to have huge value in reraising situations because people have seen me reraise light. The fact that their calling range increaces as I reraise more also adds value to my KQ type hands.
I agree 100% and this is why I re-raise preflop from the blinds and all other positions.