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Originally Posted by docvail
If that's right, it sounds like all we're doing is trying to cooler our opponents by flopping or otherwise making a big hand, or bluff-catch with marginal hands. It sounds more like Bingo than Poker, inasmuch as it doesn't seem to leverage the leaks which exist within the player pool.
You're not the first to describe this method as Bingo poker, but the thing is that we're much better than the majority of our opponents at Bingo poker, so we're perfectly fine engaging in it. Preflop we're playing far less hands from far less positions for far less money than our opponents are, and postflop we're winning more with the best of it and losing less with the worst of it (i.e. it actually does take advantage of player pool leaks). It is by no means a "bad" method (although you can certainly argue whether it is the best method).
A crapload of players at this level are *so* very very bad. So attempting to simply see a cheap flop with all of them with a speculative hand, especially with a nut making one, especially in position, especially for the minimum 1bb when many bbs deep (i.e. IO thru the roof), can simply never be "bad". Optimal (whatever that really means)? Who knows... but good luck proving either way.
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