Preflop More Important than Ever
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Level 24
: 12,000/24,000, 3,000 ante
As the price of poker goes up so does the EV of winning chips preflop. If there's more out there, why not try and still them. We think Evgeny Zaytsev just tried this versus Juan Manuel Perez but it didn't work.
Perez raised to 48,000 from UTG+1 only for the Russian to three-bet to 120,000 from the big blind. Perez thought for a little while before calling, all the time with his head faced down.
The flop came 
. Zaytsev checked and quickly folded, like he suspected something or was purely bluffing, when Perez bet.