Where's the logic (SNG's)

[pooh74]

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I often make plays similar to this, though probably in situations more correct than the ones you're complaining about. And yeah, I try to do it with more than high card 6 or so. And yeah, preferably I get the pot heads up preflop, but that doesn't really matter.

It's often not a mistake to do this, and I often have to restrain myself from having to explain to the idiots why it would be stupid for me to check down.

PS: thinking that a hand like a small pair has very little chance to win because it's "nothing" is stupid. Not like that has much to do with the overall point.

citanul

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yeah...I get berated all of the time for betting at a dry side pot when i have say, 77 on a 6, 5 T board...the villain folds and his K comes on the turn or river and I lose the hand, I get lambasted...but they dont understand that I wasnt "bluffing" at a dry side pot, I was instead, giving myself a MUCH better chance at winning the hand and pushing out his overcard draws or what have you...anything else is stupid.

You think you are always schooling the fish for "bluffing" a dry side pot, when many times, you are the fish in this situation...(not per se in your example, but there are many times when it could be "right" to play like this). Getting the player out is not ALWAYS the right move...thinking so is a just bad dogma.