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Originally Posted by jesse8888
This is like 1/3rd of the answer. Call and it's probably not close.
+1
Also, an observation about "cleaning outs". If one is raising or betting to do it, you can't also count the outs as full outs.
For instance, if you are raising to clean the king outs here, you can't also say that you have 3 king outs-- the whole point of the play is that there's another, stronger king out there that you can get to fold, leaving you with two, not three, remaining kings.
Same thing with the gutshot outs. If you are raising to get someone to fold a 4, you have to assume that there are only 3, not four, 4's left.
I think if we were actually going to bet/raise this flop, it would need to be as a semi-bluff, not an attempt to clear outs. In other words, the idea would be that if we fired off 3 barrels on scary boards, we'd be able to get everyone to fold often enough when we don't hit our hand. And I suspect there aren't enough scenarios where everyone is going to do that.