So it's 3 bets to me in the BB with A8o....I cap

[Jiggymike]

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But now you are 1) teaching button a lesson and 2) doing it in such a way that you kind of advertise negatively about yourself.

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I like this aspect of it. IF you get to show it down, others will think "he's joined in the insanity" and BTN may think twice about 3-betting ace-rag & micropairs. IF you show it down. Otherwise it looks like you got pushed around again.

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I thought the value of the play in +EV was quite thin (if at all) but that Harv made the play pretty much solely for these purposes. Doing it with something like 62o would just be idiotic, A8o is good enough to win some of the time and just a great hand to show down in the situation (true, if you can get there).