Bet Out or Check Raise -- You Decide

[PokerMike]

When Sklansky talks about expertplays playing morehands, its not ones such as 97s in EP. All that means is that better players can play a *little* looser, because they can turn very marginal hands into winners with superior postflopplay. In the hands of an expert, 97s(for a raise UTG) can't be turned into a winner.If the reason you raised if for deception value, then that has some merit to it. In tight games where you opponents are attentive its really easy for them to narrow your UTG rasing standards. Playing a hand like 97s from UTG every once in a while(more like 1/50, not 1/5) helps yout UTG winrate as it makes it a little harder for your opponents to hand read, EVENE THOUGH 97s is a money-loser in that position. Its like if you only played AA from UTG, your profit would be rather small as youd be easy to read. If you play AA and 32o from UTG, your winrate UTG increases even though you added a losing hand into the mix. The mainpoint here is that you can't play these losing hands very often or they'll hurt your UTG winrate too much, where no amount ofpostflopplay can turn them into winners, thats why you only play them very rarely(i'm not sure of the exact amount, but i'm sure its much much less than 1/5). Myself, i add hands like ATo/88/77 depending on table looseness to disguise my UTG hand range.All those points are moot though, since the monkeys at 10/20 haven't much clue in hand reading.