Barron's Article.

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Barron,

You are right that you should 3-bet pre-flop due to your pot equity. Even if you are dominated by the raiser.

But the last sentence of your article is very misleading. It implies that the purpose of the pre-flop raise is to make the pot big enough for you to draw post-flop.

The real reason for the pre-flop raise is your pre-flop equity. The real benefit of increasing the pot size is that when you do flop a big hand, you increase the likelihood that your oppoents will chase you with a hand that is drawing dead.

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Since I just linked to this thread from another thread, as I said in that thread, there are bits I would expand upon and clarify, but the above quote is definitely one area I'd change and Max is 100% correct in his correction.

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