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petsa,
It is much more likely for more people to FOLD if you open push, rather than a re-raising war. With nothing invested, ppl will throw their hands away, and you will get 1, maybe 2 callers. Once they start putting their chips in, they feel invested in the pot, and will likely not fold, thus giving you 3 hands to beat.
Also, tripling up or quadrupling up with greater than 50% equity is ridiculously good EV, one that you should not turn down. Fold because someone has a better hand than you, not because you might get knocked out.
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Ok. I agree. At least now that I have done some homework
I visited one very good thread on this at MTT Strategy via the Anthology list of good threads:
http://archiveserver.twoplustwo.com/...te_id/1#import