[Noam Chomsky]

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meh, I actually four bet hand 1 a good percentage when I know I'm getting three bet light. If I don't, I'd probably call.

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I think this is a horrible play. Why on earth would you turn 99 into a bluff? Sure you might fold out TT-JJ, but you can just as easily do that with 57s. Are you praying he shoves AK back at you so you can call for a coin flip?

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Yeah, I could just as easily do that with 57s and probably would a fair amount.

I'm not "praying" for anything. I'll evaluate whatever he does in response and hope to make a good decision based off of that. Sometimes I might call, sometimes I'll fold quick.

Also, I'm not turning my hand into a bluff. Shoving this flop would be turning 99 into a bluff. Right now, the information that I have tells me that I'm likely being three bet light, that means, I think 99 is ahead of his range so I'm value betting. Surely you've bet for value and then folded before?

Calling preflop is ok sometimes but often it just nullifies the real value that your hand has, that is to say, 99 doesn't have a ton of value in a rr pot when you're not the one with the initiative after the flop a good third of the time. You're much more likely to make a bigger mistake later in this hand by calling preflop than you can possibly make by four betting now if you think you're being three bet light.

In my experience, in 85% of three bet pots, the winner is decided on the flop which is great when you three bet 89s get called by 99 and the flop comes AXX and you get to be the one to c-bet.