Re: pg. 88 SSHE
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There's a trade off to be made by raising preflop. With a good hand a preflop raise is automatically +ev, it will win more than it's fair share so any additional money you get into the pot is more profit for you.
The trade-off to that preflop raise is that you're postflop edge goes down (you won't make as much, percentage wise, on postflop play in a raised pot as you will in an unraised pot.
(What's not said at this point is that a smaller ev of a larger pot can still be a higher profit, it depends on exactly how much you lose postflop compared to how much you gain preflop - which in turn depends on the hand in question. Some hands lose more postflop equity after a preflop raise than others do. If a hand is a large preflop favorite, but only loses a little postflop ev than the raise is overall still favorable. If the hand only gains slightly by a preflop raise, but loses a lot in postflop ev in the process, then you're better off just calling preflop.)
Still in this paragraph he says that one of the reasons that you lose postflop equity is that you tie yourself to the pot.
(In a smaller pot you can fold a lot of thinner draws or marginal made hands that you should play out in a larger pot. By raising preflop you're forcing yourself to play more hands longer postflop, and a lot of those hands will ultimately be losers)
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