Re: a fun 97s hand
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Even if you were slightly above equity, the 3 bet would still be bad though, because you are forcing yourself to play badly after the flop and lose money.
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I don't really understand this statement. Just because an extra bet goes in pre-flop you are suddenly going to start playing "badly" after the flop? I understand that inflating the pot increases the odds that everyone is getting to call including ours, but why would you have to play "bad." Either a play is +EV or it isn't, and you can certainly still "play poker" in a big pot.
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Snowball is saying that you're creating a pot so big it would be incorrect to fold before the river if you flopped a pair or any draw, no matter how weak. It's essentially taking our decision making edge out of the hand, seeing as how we're mathematically forced into the vast majority of our postflop play.
Hence, turning into a fish. Sometimes being good at the pokers is confusing.
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but one could argue that the pot is going to be large anyway. is the difference between a 12sb pot and an 18sb so large? does the extra 3bb really impact the postflop decision-making so much? we're drawing to two pair anyway. we're drawing to a gutshot anyway. what's the difference REALLY?
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