Re: Pooh Bah Post. Flop min-bet Theorem
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I've always treated minbets as checks
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This makes sense. It is essentially a check. So, if you want a "free" card, "check" behind by calling. If you would have bet if checked to, then bet.
The point of the theorem seems to be that it's almost never right in these spots to take the "free" card. It seems to hold out in the games Mike's used as an example. I don't see this kind of thing much in live games.
I'm not a fan of all the EP and MP AQo preflop raises in the examples, but that wasn't the point of the posts. Most of these hands didn't go to show down and ATC would have won by raise+raise-the-min-bet.
Nice post, Mike. This does appear to be a pattern at this level of online play that seems to be fairly common, and therefore exploitable.
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