Re: 88 your play?
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By bloating the pot preflop you WILL give odds for overs to chaise and you won't be able to protect your overpair no matter how hard you try.
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This is a good point, but minor compared to the other EV considerations IMO.
Firstly, this assumes that we never get a chance to face some or all of the field with two bets in the larger pot, so there is a chance to protect here.
Secondly, one of the reasons that this is especially good with the middling pockets is that no one necessarily even has 2 overs. There's still plenty of single overcard hands etc. that can incorrectly call many flops.
Finally, even if there are some hands out there that can draw correctly, we almost always still have an equity edge against them; it would be nice to protect, but we can still profit off of the bets going in on the flop.
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