Re: Thoughts on this hand
I'm not sure if you're right.
Firstly I think you are too far behind the guy's range for this move to be +EV for this hand. This is OK if it's not terribly -EV and it helps you for future hands.
You claim it will help you because the nits will loosen up against you. I don't think this is helpful: you should encourage them to play tighter. If they are making mistakes by folding too much, get them to make even more and even bigger mistakes. On the other hand if your opponents call too much, you should encourage them to call more.
The only situation where you should encourage the nits to loosen up is when there are no live ones in the game and the nits will play badly postflop. But then you might be better off finding another table.
I'd like to think about this some more and make a big post about it, because I think this applies to all forms of poker. But this is my natural reaction to what you wrote.
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