[emerson]

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the 2p2er is dumb for 3-betting 80% of his hands here. But the only way to exploit his monkey tendencies is by folding stuff that can't beat 80% of his range (q6s just barely is behind, q7s is borderline, and q8s is ahead).

In this rare instance, the dead money is significantly negated by the fact that the aggro monkey has position on you, the pot will tend to be big so the dead money will only be ~10% of the total pot anyhow, and the blinds can still pick up a monster.

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I have to strongly disagree with this. If you raise and he 3 bets, the blinds fold and you call, the dead money makes up 2.5 bets of the 8.5 bet pot. Your investment is about 35.3%. You can add a little more to the requirement because you are out of position, but you should definately play any hand that has 38% equity or so against his range, which he says is 80%. You don't need to be a favorite against his range to have positive ev. Any two random cards have about 47% equity against a big range like this. You have to play anything other than complete garbage. Any two cards 6 or higher, any pair, any two suited should be a good range.