3/6 stud/8 - 5th st trainwreck

[SweetLuckyMe]

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why fold out the dead money, that is where all the profit is?

[/ QUOTE ] OK, so you call and all 3 of you go to 6th - you hit your boat on 7th, and the other guy backdoors a low. Wham, half the pot is gone.

Will your raise surely fold anyone out? No, but there's a chance, and a quite reasonable chance, I think, the way the hand went down. In the grand scheme of winrates, letting "dead money" hang around by encouraging calls isn't the way to maximize profit. Think in terms of pots, not bets.