[Micturition Man]

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Option 1:

1) Take the top 1/3 of your hand range
2) Don't fold with it
3) Profit

Option 2:

1) Get into a leveling war with Aba
2) Win the 'paper rock scissors' game
3) Profit

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Wow, an absolutely perfect summary of the situation.

Incidentally it's interesting to see how game theory is slowly percolating down into more and more strategy discussions.

I actually have a feeling Aba is not bluffing often enough in this situation, given his solid style of play (compared to a random Euro player who is probably bluffing too often here), but unfortunately someone already spilled the beans about what his hand was so I might just be biased.

I have seen a couple of hands where Aba goes for a big overbet value bet when he thinks it's hard to put him on a big hand (in this case because it's really hard to put him on a big king, in other cases because he bluffed earlier streets and then bdoored a straight or something.)