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If you have a pair of tens against two opponents with some action before the flop, and the flop comes Queen, Jack, Ten, all one suit, you have a set, but you dont want to play a big pot with this hand. You've got a small hand for the situation and you'd be happy to end the hand right there.
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I didn't interpret that to mean "you should
try to end the hand right there".
Just that you wouldn't be disappointed if you won a very small pot.
The general theme of the book, at least as far as I've read so far, seems to
be that in a deep-stacked cash game your strategy should be focussed on
the big pots: both on winning them and on trying to make the pots bigger
when you're fairly sure that you are going to win them.
So I'm pretty sure that Harrington's answer on this hand would be that you
keep the pot small, and don't worry too much about the fact that you
might be able to win a small pot right here if you made a big enough bet.
Small pots don't matter.
Actually, from what's before that paragraph, I think the only point he's
trying to make here is that although he's just advised trying to play big
pots with big hands, you should apply common sense about what
constitutes a "big hand": although trips after the flop is usually a big hand,
it's not really big when there's a good chance an opponent has a made
flush or straight or higher trips.