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The BABAR THEOREM:

BigBadBabar hath ordained that when ye possesseth the best hand, ye shalt betteth and raiseth so that all thy pots might verily be large and crucial.

So hath it been written and so shall it henceforth be done.

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There are plenty of times when, even when you likely have the best hand, you should forgo the use of your raise button. Holding the nuts in multiway pots is not one of them.

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I'm not terribly opposed to slowplaying it here, because the only hand we have any reason to fear at all is a set of deuces. The problem is that, as teh Wook has astutely put it, we're multiway here, so we'd like to charge any hand drawing live the maximum, punish weak draws before the river misses them, and extract from hands that are drawing stone dead in case the river really cripples their hand. It's entirely possible that we face three hands that have a member in each category. Raise.