Hi,
I'm pretty new to NL and wanted some piece of advice on one play I made preflop.

Game is .5/1 100$ NL

I'm button with KK
I raise 3$ (3BB)
one caller in middle, SB calls and BB raise to 12$ (4 times my raise) what do u ppl do in this situation?
any advice very welcome.


For the info I wanted to make sure that would be heads up and wanted to figure if he was on AA, so I raised to 25$ and everybody fold. Was it a good play?

so u can comment, i doubled my buy-in prior to this moment, playing TAG (at least I think )

The play seems fine. You don't want to see a flop with 5 people with KK. The raise was perfect to isolate. If he comes back over the top of you, then you have a decision to make. But I have a hard time letting go of KK regardless of the raise or the number of raises unless i have an excellent read on my opponent.

-twelver

I assumed he ment someone limped in MP and then the BB re-raised him. But yeah, it could do with some clarification.

If there was a limper in the pot already I would have bumped it up to $4 or $5. I sometimes reraise here and sometimes not, if I reraised and he folds, I'm happy enough with the play.

The trouble is that any face card outside of the K on the flop is going to make it difficult to tell if he has AJ AQ for top pair or JJ/QQ for a set maybe even AA all along. I'm much more prone to reraising opponents that are likely to scream over the top of me with JJ/QQ than ones that will only come over the top with AA but will give up a good chunk of change post flop with JJ/QQ. Re-raising as a default play is a fine one though, unless you know them to be overly aggressive you will know you are likely to be drawing to a set 70% of the time.