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Originally Posted by browni3141
I don't think one is obviously better than the other. The hand seems clearly strong enough to 4-bet for value but we're deep enough that we don't want to play for stacks pre and villain's aggressive postflop tendencies lean me in favor of calling. He could blast off with a lot of pre-flop bluffs that will just fold to a 4-bet.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
The real danger with big pairs with big SPRs is the wide range of implied-odds hands that can see a flop or continue to a flop bet and score big when they get there. Making the pot bigger pre makes the hand easier to play post.
That said, there
is an argument for keeping the pot small: we have absolute position, and big SPRs amplify the power of position. We
may want to flat the three-bet with our entire range so as to be able to play in position with a range that the villain may not realize is actually uncapped.
But fearing to get it in pre with a 280 bb stack is crazy talk.