[Shillx]

You are probably incorrect.

Limit hold'em is an interesting game because you can always "call down" if you really want to know what someone has. It will cost us 2 BB to "call down" and it will cost us 2 BB to make it 3-bets on the turn (just to make it 3-bets).

If the situation is heads up, we need to have the best hand > 50% of the time (actually more because of the cap factor), or re-raising is a strictly dominated strategy. By paying those 2-bets, we could have seen a showdown. Going to a showdown dominates 3-betting if we are good < 50% of the time.

But there is a 3rd player in the pot so that changes things. Now we only have to have the best of it 33% (but we actually need to have it more because our 3-bet re-opens the betting) of the time to make 3-betting a dominant strategy. Do we have the best hand here 33% of the time??? If we don't, calling down strictly dominates 3-betting. We actually need to have more then 33% equity to 3-bet because we open ourselves up to a cap when we 3-bet. In this hand, we probably have 10-20% equity so making it 3-bets gets dominated by calling down.

Brad