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Hey Vuciitis,

Preflop open is fine.

Flop cbet for value/protection is fine here.

I agree with comments, we are overepping our hand by firing turn here. The one advantage is that we protect our equity. The best line is likely to check turn here. We can check/call once and then check/decide river dependingo n the sizing, often x/f.

I think river x/c is too thin here. There are just not that many hands opponent can be bluffing with. Can you think of any? TT is played very strangely here, no idea if this is a bluff or what.

i think A:sQ / K:sQ might spaz on my check there.. ofc i never expect to see hands like TT, thats just lucky.

Yeah, it's true he might play some Qx like this. Those are value hands though, and I think he may bet smaller with those. I don't really see many pure bluffs he can have, very often he has at least a pair, often a flush.

Vs a smaller river bet I may consider calling since we pick up 2pair and opponent is more likely to be value-betting worse etc.

isn't a smaller bet more likely to be a valuebet in general the the larger bet?

Hey w34z3l,

Is betting 30% on T and 30-50% on R a better line?

Originally posted by sirilidion
isn't a smaller bet more likely to be a valuebet in general the the larger bet?

Yeah, that's true, but keep in mind we also beat some of our opponents value range when we spike our 2nd pair. We also need to be good less often to make the call.

Originally posted by ZeDawning
Is betting 30% on T and 30-50% on R a better line?

It's a little unorthodox but there are certainly merits to this line. Somewhat tough to balance yet in terms of exploitation it's a pretty decent line so long as we don't expect to induce bluff-raises very frequently. We protect our equity while still betting small enough that we extract value.

It would have to be bet/fold on both turn and river though.