Originally posted by Bierbaer
But again: raising his lead right away is definitely fine. As you mentioned you give him great odds by making it so small, and there are a ton of draws.
I'd bet more towards potsize, $32 looks a lot better to me (pot would be $36).
Imo if you don't want to raise that big to scare him off you shouldn't raise at all, your hand is very decepted by calling.
Are you sure? I would say if I bet 32$ he will fold handswhich I want to keep in the hand and you only isolate against draws where you are not that big superfavourite (you have approx 70%) in comparison with these TP or overpair hands or two pairs where he is almost drawing dead (on the other hand there are not many combos of made hands, he will either have draw on small hand on this turn).
If you bet 24$ as Tim did, many worse hands will stay in the hand, sometimes even hands like AK. You have to assume that your opponent is not PRO and has some ego etc. To my experience bet 24$ can be good because he will call JT,QT, KT, AT and all the overpairs and naturally all the draws and some spewy hands like AK. He may also do some crazy move (whereas if you bet 32 he only continues with draws.). People does not like to fold to small raise (ego thing) and they will do more bad calls than if you bet 32$.
I would say raise 24 is not bad, whereas 32gets more value from draws. But if you raise 24 and they don´t hit they are MORE likely to bluff or pay something wrongly on the turn than if you raised 32 and then continued on turn.
I see very minor differences in the two lines and think they are almost always equal in terms of EV. As long as you raise at least 2,5times his bet on flop on draw heavy board, it is a good play. There are bigger leaks to focus on in our plays generally, this one is surely fine.
In this particular spot I aggree with Bierbaer that there are not many made hands he can have and you want to protect against draws and get value of them. But I still don´t raise 32 and keep raising 24$ all the day long - e.g. against overpair he will think you may have some TPTK or TPGK and invest more than if you express overaggression raise 32. To such a big bet he will be cautious even with QQ.