TPE Pro
August 25, 2012
I like your line, flop is definitely a must-bet on a dynamic flop like that and turn is close, but since you can have all four sets here and villain can check-call a reasonable amount of 5x, I think it’s fine to check behind and use your overpairs as bluff-catchers on the river.
If you value-bet all your overpairs on the turn then your range for bet flop/check turn is pretty weak, and that’s a problem since you can expect villain to bet river reasonably often on many rivers. Versus this river bet sizing you can bluff-catch most 77+, and you can bluff-catch with club blockers to bigger bet sizings. Hopefully you can also have some A3cc/A2cc here from time to time as well, but it’s not 100% necessary to have a river raising range here, villain’s range is reasonably polar anyway.
July 12, 2013
TPE Pro
December 6, 2012
You shouldn’t decide on your bet sizing just based on the hand you’re currently holding. This results in unbalanced bets that savvy players can read for what they are. This is a flop that really strongly favors you as the pre-flop raiser, but also one where even most of your strongest hands (such as this one, but also hands like AQ and KJ) have an interest in betting something to fold out live cards. You chose a good bet size that you can make with your entire range, and the fact that you could have so mean unpaired hands gives your opponent some incentive to continue with hands that, in this case, the TT is crushing. The thing about trying to make your own decisions “easy” is that you usually end up doing the same thing for your opponent.
February 5, 2015
Foucault said:
“The thing about trying to make your own decisions “easy” is that you usually end up doing the same thing for your opponent.”
I will take this one to bed, mull it over in my sleep, and incorporate it in to my thought processes by tomorrow.
I wonder if the converse is true: trying to make your opponents’ decisions hard also complicates our decisions? I guess that is self evidently true. OK I had the whiskey, off to bed!
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