The dirty little secret about Miller's book for players with PT

[Gregatron]

Since the blinds are the biggest leak in my game this thread, and specifically this post, have been really informative. Thanks for the good thoughts Harv. I agree with everything except:

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-Not raising enough from the BB behind many limpers. When you check your option while holding a hand like JJ or QJs after 5 limpers, you are only hurting yourself--by taking away profits when you win the hand, by eliminating the pot odds you need to continue with your draws, etc. When you have an equity advantage, you should usually raise; it makes no difference whether or not you're in the BB.

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I think you made a common logical fallacy here. Someone will tell me if I am off base here. If I buy a lottery ticket (-EV) and scratch it off and win, this does not mean that I did not make a mistake buying the damn thing in the first place. The same applies to the logic of raising for the purpose of manipulating the pot to have the odds to chase draws later on. I agree 1000% that raising with an equity edge is a reason to raise... it is, in fact, the reason. Should I, for example, 3 bet 33 unto a TAG's utg raise with numerous cold callers just so I will have proper odds to chase my set on the flop if I miss? Of course not.

I'm not trying to call you out here though. Everything else you said was pretty acurate IMO. Good post! I just wanted to address this one (minor?) point.