Question for Mr. Malmuth in Poker Essays

Mr. Malmuth


I just purchased Poker Essays I and read in "The Cost of Poker" about how you should virtually never play a hand unless it has positive expectation. Then you said that you should sometimes to throw your opponents off. An example was from 7CS to reraise an obvious pair of queens when you have a pair of sevens with an A kicker. I had thought from reading 7CSFAP that this was standard play and you should do it every time even if you saw your opponent's hand and he had queens. Is this correct? Or if you KNEW he had queens are you correct to muck? This is still problematic for me. I'd appreciate any help.


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