Re: Making the Pot Bigger vs. Keeping it Small?
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Ok, you pick up some premium hand in the blinds and the table has limped to you, yadda yadda. You either raise and give everyone odds to call to make whatever crap they're holding, or you just check your option and make moves when you know that they're making mistakes when they call.
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You answer your own question there. When you raise preflop and they call they are making their mistake there, when you have big holdings that is. So by that mistake they have then added dead money into the pot and then get the chance to make +EV plays if the flop hits them.
So when you wanted to keep the pot small and know they are making a mistake on the flop, you always know they are making a mistake preflop.
Big unsuited cards you generally want to thin the field out though.
Take a deck of cards take the 2 cards out you want as your big hand then deal out a 10 handed game, take out the percentage of cards that usually fold preflop (you'll be doing this tighter than it actually is due to the blinds) then check out the EV on twodimes.net - if you want to make things interesting remove a few hands and see how the difference goes up/down for hands multiway vs short field.
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