[Red_Diamond]

God knows I've had my own problems with donkey plays this week. I had a couple situations where some euro-donk bluffed into a dry sidepot (even on the river!), and let shorty quadruple up which came back to eliminate the rest of us.

While I can't understand such foolishness in tournament poker, I have read over the two concepts by Chris Ferguson regarding this case. And surprisingly, there is evidence to support that bluffing into dry sidepots can be +ev. This is due to the fact that a third player must call with even weak holdings to make sure shorty doesn't live. This in turn, allows the bluffer to make profit when he DOES have a hand, as it is never known for sure.

These papers always worry me, as I am afraid they may cause more of a trend of this behaviour. I can only assume Ferguson was trying to disprove the bluffing aspect, but instead ended up proving the opposite to his intent?

For those who have read Bill Chen's work, I'm curious what you think.