...This pretty much turns your hand face up imo.
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Does it matter?
I would have thought that if either of the other 2 players has a hand that they'd call with when they 'know' what your hand is; then it would be a hand that they'd call with if they don't 'know' it.
Of course it matters. Jamming here pretty much takes all sets and straights out of your range, possibly 2 pair hands aswell. Your range is now massively weighted towards hands like the one that you have, plus some decent draws, looks a lot like diamonds with overs aswell.
It means that you should get snapcalled by hands like small overpairs that were limped pre and 5x hands that have good equity against us. The whole point of check/shoving is that it folds out some weaker made hands that have decent equity against us. Shoving here doesn't accomplish that against a thinking player.
Now of course
you could argue that most of the regulars in this tournament aren't thinking on that level and will happily pass their A5 because they can 'find a better spot' or whatever.You'd almost certainly be right and so I'd agree that shoving here is fine, but while it might not matter much in this situation against this field, against tougher players this move isn't going to be as effective imo.
That was pretty much what I meant, obviously it comes down to people reading.
I think there's a difference between what can be correct in theory, and what can be correct in practice - because, like with all game theory, the absolutely technically correct way of playing assumes your opponents will play absolutely technically correct - and in practice; they don't and they won't.
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