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Originally Posted by Ispitan
raising with the intention of calling three of the four opponents seems terrible to me because I then often flip for the chips rather than picking up the pot uncontested most of the time
How often are all three of the short stacks getting it in when you raise 2x. Almost never. The short stacks have no room left to manoeuvre and they are going to be calling a shove with more or less the same range of hands they shove over an open. A raise achieves everything a shove does without risking half your stack.
You can also get shoved on by worse if you min raise as the short stacks may believe they still have some fold equity. Im not saying shoving is wrong but I favour a raise here.