Quote Originally Posted by mcatdog
I think if you make the right assumptions then the answer is yes, but in the real world it's closer to "yes but."

FWIW I posted something like this a couple of months ago and got ripped on by Lukie.
I'm now 2 posts into this thread and this makes me very happy.

well, not really, but in the poker sense, yes.

Hero (most likely) should NOT be shoving his entire range. Why would we do that, barring generally unlikely circumstances?

Shoving the entire range would be +EV but in almost all circumstances would not be MAXIMIZING expectation, which is what we are trying to accomplish. Some ideas to maximize expectation might be to bet less than pot sometimes, check some hands, only shove the top x% of hands, bet your very worst and most of your good hands, checking some hands with SD value, min-betting to induce a bluff shove, who knows.