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no and yes. I'd 3-bet hand 1 if HJ weren't in the pot.

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The main reason that I think 3 betting is ok is because HJ is in the pot. Trapping dead money in the pot is pretty huge.

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agreed that KOing HJ would be awesome, but I think hobbs is saying ton a ton of players will call for 2 more, and then we have to play a weakish hand like 66 OOP vs 2 players in a big pot where we will often get outplayed.

the reason we should be concerned about being outplayed is:

Button is competent
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HJ is unknown

now, unknown means usually bad, but we don't know HOW he is bad. He may be too passive or too agressive, or too loose or too tight. We have no idea. When we have JJ or AK here we don't really care that much about not having a read, but with 66, I like to have a line on my villains so I will know how to proceed.