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You make the game more difficult for yourself when you show no balls by being unwilling to invest a lot of bets with a non-nut hand against a player who it is +EV to do so against. people who say "i never put X amount of bets without the nuts" are pussy and playing -EV in that spot although not as much if youre not in southern california, where this sort of crazy action on all one street thing happens to me about once every two sessions or so.

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Even assuming that you are right that poker is all anatomical (viz: having balls and not being a pussy and other sundry he-man type comments), I am not sure how taking the pussy approach makes the game more difficult.

Sure, if it is positive Ev to go 8 bets with JJ on a 763 flop, you should do it. But that requires finding someone who will go seven bets with a hand worse than JJ. Apparently, you found such a man...or a broad with plumbing...whatever. Most of us don't encounter these creatures.

I stand by my comment generally that going multiple bets in heads-up situations definitely does make the game more difficult to play which in turn leads to more errors - usually on other hands as opposed to the hand in question - and which in turn leads to minus Ev play overall.

Raising, checkraising and reraising are crucial aspects of poker in pots involving 2 or more opponents. They are way less crucial tools in heads-up spots (Of course, this comment does not apply to a heads-up game).