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Originally Posted by mongidig
This is true if we are getting involved with this hand in 3 bet pots often. However, getting involved once in a while, especially given the described line up can't be that bad. Doing this with 56s or 67s seems fine maybe even standard. Doing this with 79s is gambly, but I'm ok with it.
I'm assuming this is going to be in a huge mw pot and not in a 3 or 4 handed situation.
It sounds like you're saying we should throw this in as a semibluff for balancing or "advertising value" or whatever, and yet a huge multiway pot is where those things have little value. People generating multiway pots may think "He's awfully tight," but they'll also think "I just know he has AK so a pair of treys is probably good." Regarding advertising, I do think doing this once in a blue moon just to show up at showdown can actually be good for image. Humans have a hard time distinguishing between 2% of the time and 20% of the time so you get more credit for tricky play than you deserve.
But that's not exactly what you're saying. I certainly don't think playing for 3 bets cold (maybe putting in a 4th) is standard with 76s. In fact, it's horrible. If I'm wrong I hope a bunch of good players will pile on, because if I think something is very bad when it's marginally good, this must be revelatory of a SERIOUS leak in my game.
I could see playing JTs or T9s like this
rarely if you have a deliberate deceptive purpose to it. Domination is somewhat worse there but the multiway pot makes domination less relevant. But usually you're just burning bets for deception against unobservant or theoretically bad opponents.
Last edited by AKQJ10; 07-04-2018 at 06:25 PM.