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Old 11-28-2005, 06:24 PM
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Default Re: Top Pair, too passive?

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looks perfect. standard WA/WB.

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WA/WB thinking works pretty well when the pot is HU. HU, you want to avoid betting the villain's hand for him/charging yourself when WB, and instead you want to make it to showdown and value betting any weakness along the way.

But the more players you face, the less WA/WB works. This is because of several reasons. First, since there are more villains, the chances of you being WB increases. Second, because of the bet-raise interactions between villains, your cost to see each street can be 2, 3, or even 4x as much as in a HU pot. Third, because the number of collective outs facing you increases, even though you may be WA of any hand individually, you are likely not WA of the field as a whole.

Thus, in multiway pots, I think it is best to avoid showdown-oriented thinking like WA/WB, and instead put maximum effort into hand-reading. Trying to calldown and make it to showdown when you are in fact, WB, is hugely expensive.
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