HoH1(p323): You flop 2 pair and Harrington suggests you bet pot?! WHY?

[AA suited]

Lvl1, no reads.

You are utg+1 w/ATo. You min raise.
2 players after you call, and the blinds call.

Flop = AT5, 2 tone

Folded to you.

Harrington keeps hammering that you should make a little bit over 1/2pot bet to disguise continuation bets from when you actually have a hand. and it makes it incorrect to draw to.

His explanation of the pot size bet in this situation is that players w/Ax will call and to make it expensive to draw to.

But a little over 1/2pot bet does the same thing. A pot size bet is more likely to chase away drawers than a 60% pot bet. and with 2 pairs, you want callers.

plus a pot bet on the flop deviates from your normal betting pattern.

So I'm confused as to why he recommends that you bet out pot on this one?! [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]