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Originally Posted by dead..money
I Agee that I think that's his viewpoint and I also agree that I think it's wrong, which is why I wanted to open up discussion on the topic before making a purchase on a book to discuss the topic
Yeah I texted my friend later about this spot, and there's a lot of issues I have with just flatting the big in this spot. Besides just missing value:
1) We allow UTG to put bets in, only when he either has JJ beat or tons of equity against it postflop, by defaulting to a call and check-flop-heavy strategy.
2) There's no guarantee a flop gets bet in late position when checked to, which is what we really want to happen. Like say we get a good flop: 973tt and we have a BDFD. If it checks around, there's still 12 overcards and 7 additional flush cards that can come, with varying degrees of awkwardness (overcards moreso than flush cards).
3) Back to 973tt, you raise UTG and get 3 calls, BB calls. Flop you check to BTN who bets and BB check raises. A lot of people in 2017 don't fold AK here, or even like KQ, because the pot is big and BB can be doing this w/ any decent one pair hand to "protect". This play isn't foreign anymore and doesn't do nearly as much for us to realize equity as it used to.
So let's give the EP raiser 14.2% of starting hands (slid the Poker Cruncher app slider all the way until A7s shows up), and give some wideish ranges to the cold callers. JJ will show up w/ 30%-35% equity here, so I want to be jamming.
Moreover, people don't fold flops in big pots anymore for single bets, and often times won't for two. We don't exploit that by trying to keep the pot as small as possible w/ our premium hands in order to bait one guy into a trap, we exploit it by making it as expensive as possible for them to chase us down w/ their 87o and 94s and whatever.