[Wynton]

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why not just call down? Or else call raise, call turn, b/f river (although i much prefer a straight call down). The fold is good, given that u 3B and he seems tight, but i would rather just get to showdown, get a read, and give villain opt to bluff. I don't see how the three bet can be for value, as it allows him to get away from lesser hands and punish u with stronger and there aren't really any draws here. If behind to AK/ AJ, u have outs.

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You're right that this was not the best way to extract value. But I think what happened is that I was strongly predisposed to believing that I was beat as soon as I was raised, so I wanted a bit of confirmation.

Had I been more on the fence about what villain had, then I think calling down would plainly have been best. And maybe I didn't have enough information to deviate. But I think that it's ok to take a different line like this occasionally, if we can trust our read.