My Article in Bluff Magazine (x-post)

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A good example that I like to give: same game, 100/200, $20k stacks. The button, a good aggressive player, raises to 600 and you call in the BB with 5-5. Flop is Jd10d2h. You check and the button bets $1,000, which he does with almost every hand he raised with. You usually have the best hand. But a fold is still correct.

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Are there other textured flops that you would continue on, even if you didn't hit a set?

You aren't suggesting that you should play for set value with 5-5 against a button raise, are you?

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Obviously JT flops are horrible for hands like 55 because anything vaguely connected 78 or higher has 10+ outs and you'll never know which ones they are. The times you are ahead you're usually flipping, so overall you are crushed. Flops like K73 or TT4 are very different.

Great article btw, some intuitive concepts well explained.

[Barrin6]

Awesome article though I had this idea in my head for a long time. Too bad I didn't write about it [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[john kane]

nice article, but i think it is far more relevant for hsnl (hence you have written it for hsnl, just saying not dissing). your basically quantifying the benefits of keeping a wide hand range to ensure opponents find it harder to read you and so make worse calls.

ive thought since being a profitable player that the money is to be made from getting your opponents to make decisions based on the opponents uncertainty over your hand range rather than you trying to make tough calls based on your uncertainty.

good article. i like to read theory articles like this.