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Old 08-18-2006, 03:40 PM
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Default Re: Thoughts on this hand

Yes, very nice post. I like the thought process here. It is the thoughts about image that I find most interesting and perhaps most debatable.
I think it depends on how many players are necessarily (a) following the action closely and, as importantly, are then willing to adjust their own play accordingly. I think there will only be one or two players at the table at most who will be willing to make the proper adjustments. In other words, whatever style they have, most of them are extremely loth or unable to change it. Thus your play may neither gain nor lose any EV later in the session.
However, if they are paranoid, that may well encourage some to fold more quickly against someone who has presented a semi-manic image style, as they can't handle or don't want the variance. Interesting.
I suppose the key besides the theory is: what do you think you gained from this play later on? Maybe impossible to answer.