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You know, you don't always have to hit the garbage hands to win, don't you?
On Party in Limit Hold em you most certainly do.

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Maybe in 50/$1, but not necessarily in a tournament, although the play was pretty loose at this point and this is only a $50 MTT. Getting two players to fold, though would not be easy and would require come more chips.

I think villain's checking the flop from the was bad. Having capped preflop, I wan't going to fold to one bet. I think he would be better off building the pot for various reasons.

He did create maximum deception. With the flop check and the raises on the turn and river, I was putting him on AA, AK, or AQ.

As for raise, since he is calling anyway, I don't think a call is that clear with 54s on the button with a 3rd position raise and CO call.

I think the reraise with 54s would have been better against one player. Against two players, he is getting better implied odds to hit something, but your chances to steal the pot are much smaller.

Sklansky in HPFAP recommends throwing in early position raises with suited connectors if your early position raises are getting too much respect. In a lot of limit holdem games, an UTG raise is assumed to be AK or QQ-AA and often picks up the blinds or gets called by the BB, who folds on the flop. I find that kind of play can create a lot of deception.