($55) Stars - Flop two pair on monotone board

[BarryLyndon]

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3. I think this is the best option. You will get calls from the obv. stuff that beats you, but you also have some fold equity and the pot is big, so I would try and get it. If you are called, you are probably still is good-decent shape.

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Dont the better hands call and worse hands fold?

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Hands that have paired up and have flush draws that you are ahead of (like Ahx, or KhJ, or KhQ) will call your push here. You still might get called by a naked heart as well.

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Illini

You suggested that I be banned for my Fold AA post a week ago (the one with the cockaspaniel, Daniel Neagreanu, and the schitzophrenic donk), but I'm starting to like your posts. Yes, I think that pushing is pretty decent advice. But, I still disagree - this is more logic than anything else:

How much faith do you have in having the best hand when three players have called your flop bet. What are the three possible holdings here - Ahx, Khx, and Qhx, respectively? Well, that would be nice, except aside from these three holdings, everything else has you beat. This includes slow played sets, slow played baby flushes, slow played big/nut flush, or a slow played two pair afraid of a flush but when you push, "OH NO, he has a FLUSH, I call."

You have plenty of chips to work with, so your two pair isn't that valuable at this time.

If there are three players making seemingly idiotic plays by slow playing on this board, there is a much bigger chance one of them is an idiot + with a better hand.

Barry