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  1. #7
    hmm yeah sorry it's uber late and I missed the obvious.

    my answer to your actual question, then... I think given the potsize etc the bet is really just a whatever 'oops I forgot to 5-bet you pre and with these stacks we're pretty much getting it in anyway' bet. I would assume that he only folds with a tiny probability. It really doesn't make much sense for us to get to the flop when villain's already put in over half his stack pre?

    Anyway, it's sort of trivial - not to be offensive or anything. Let's call it a value bet and be glad situations like these do actually come up every now and then.

    EDIT: a better way to think of this would be just that we are ahead of villain's range, villain may still call; therefore yes we are betting for value. If he folds, he is giving up his equity, which is also good. Since he folds with a smallish probability, it is only a minor factor in our decision to bet. If you've ever read the book Easy Game by Balugawhale, this is just the '3rd reason for betting'; capitalization of dead money in the pot. Pretty straight forward... think of it as a 'sweetener' to your value bet, if nothing else. We never bet explicitly to fold worse.
    Last edited by Penneywize; 12-04-2010 at 03:08 AM.

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