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Message: [QUOTE="primrose, post: 6987023, member: 1036998"] I think this guy won't. Like, he just opened to 2x in a game with a .5x Ante; there's no way he's going to pick up on my 3bet sizing. It's just not going to happen. It's possible that another player will pick up on it, but if I think they're good, I'm not going to vary my bet sizing against them, so it doesn't really matter. I guess eventually there will be a case where a strong player picks up on a bet sizing tell, I don't realize that they're strong so I try it against them, and I get punished for that. But I expect that to very rare. Good players multi-table, which makes it very hard to pay attention to something like that. So the pro that I've listened to most in the last two months is Alexander Fitzgerald, and one of the points he makes all the time is that if you look in data bases, you almost always find that 3betting strong hands is more profitable than flatting them. (This is specific to mid to low stakes.) So that's the reason. I used to flat way more; nowadays my policy is "flat only when one of the following is true: you're at the BN, you're at the SB, you're at the BB, you have a pair, you have a suited Ace". (And even then I don't have to flat, I'm just "allowed" to.) So in most situations where someone raised before me, I'm playing 3bet or fold. I don't have enough hands online yet to get good data, but it feels like it works better. This is a suited Ace so I don't hate flatting, but I thought I'm ahead of his range, so why not make the pot bigger. That's a good point, but I'm not sure if playing a 3way pot is a bad thing? Whenever I have a suited Ace, the dream scenario is to be against a weaker flush, and more players makes that more likely. I think keeping it a 2way pot would be a stronger argument for AJo (although I think I fold AJo there -- maybe AQo). [/QUOTE]

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