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You are only defending the calling stations play because he won one hand.

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Actually, that wasn't the point I was interested in. The point I was interested in was that aggressive play can cause players to make mistakes, but that doesn't necessarily mean the aggressor will benefit from it. And that means that making other players make mistakes isn't automatically the right thing to do, although poker theory as some of us have read it might imply that it is. You don't want other players to make mistakes unless they benefit you. That's what I find interesting vis a vis poker theory.

In this particular example, I just have a hard time believing that MP2 is going to get both players to fold on a bluff often enough to make it worthwhile. But maybe I'm wrong. It seems kind of late for a semi-bluff to be very effective, especially against a player that MP2 has observed to call down with any piece of the pot.