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Originally Posted by aoFrantic
I'd like to think if the only way for us to win a hand is to pull off 200bb bluffs, we're better off folding at an earlier point in the hand the vast majority of the time.
Well against the range you mention this is just definitionally untrue. The flop 3b/turn shove play is designed to give us four ways to win. Villain folds flop, villain folds turn, villain calls flop and we hit turn, or villain calls flop and turn and we hit river. While we have just 3 outs to chop against the two combos of T8s, we have 10 outs against the 12 combos of 76s, 97s, 77, and 66 as well as 8 outs against the 3 combos of 99.
You can say we still don't have enough between the hand equity and fold equity to make it +EV, but it's not accurate to portray this play as a pure bluff.
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