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Originally Posted by Pasterbator
i dont like it. you can't profitably call any K95 type boards or QT2 or soooo many boards. Shove PF if you think he's got air a lot. A6 is not a hand you can trap with. It just isnt.
You can trap with
any hand if Villain plays in a certain way. As an extreme example, if Villain is calling a shove 100% of the time or open-shoving 100% of flops, flatting strictly dominates shoving with any hand in any situation. You have the power to choose when the money gets in, so you may as well leave yourself the option of folding when you get more information (the flop).
Now granted spamz0r's case is almost certainly not that extreme but it might be a reasonably close. The main advantage of shoving versus waiting for the flop is it allows Villain to make a mistake by folding preflop. Is this all that likely? Probably not, it's not as if you're folding out better hands here, at best you might fold some suited connector type hands that nonetheless would had sufficient equity to call if your hand was exposed.
On the other hand, flatting gives Villain the opportunity to make huge mistakes if he's open-shoving flops as liberally as spamz0r suggests. Sure, spamz0r will fold a bunch of flops in which he has 30% equity against Villain's range but those are more than made up for by the times when he spikes an Ace and has 80% equity.