Re: Small pot, deep stacks.
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I think when the stacks are deep enough, and you have the nuts but it's possible he does to, I think an all-in is incorrect.
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Yes, if your opponent has either the nuts or a bluff-catcher, and you have the nuts or a bluff, there is an optimal bet size depending on the probability that your opponent has the nuts. If your opponent could only have a bluff-catcher, you would want to bet as much as possible, so there would be no optimum bet size.
This was news to me. Thanks.
If I calculated correctly, the optimum bet size is pot*(p^(-1/2)-1), where p is the probability that your opponent has the nuts. For p large, you should never make a large bluff, and your opponent should not call a large bet without the nuts.
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