abusing bad TAG players preflop [theory]

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Chitown-

The general problem with the premise of your argument above is that you are completely ignoring the fact that you often take the pot down preflop. Essentially, the 12 bb's you put in preflop had a good chance of winning the pot right there. Now, the 20bb's you are putting to win 25bb's also has a good chance to win the pot.

The equity of them folding preflop, plus on the flop, plus the random equity you have of *gasp* actually hitting a hand and going to showdown is where we are deriving value out of tags that too often call 3-bets and fold to flop bets (the ones that still think blind setmining in 3bet pots is ok).

Todd