[damaniac]

It makes some sense. The "win it now" approach essentially means folding out other hands and cleaning up outs or hoping to win without showdown, giving you some wins that you would not have otherwise since your big draw will sometimes miss. The problem is that you have to compare that with the EV of keeping people around and how big a pot you win when your draw does hit. A lot of variables exist in knowing how many bets people will go when you hit your flush, how often you are chopping with your straight, how likely an aggressive strategy to push people out the pot is going to work (if it doesn't, we're building a bigger pot with an edge which is also great), etc.

Glancing quickly at this hand, I wouldn't have thought hero could win very often without a showdown, given the board and the opponents and such. Guess I was wrong.