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Originally Posted by Dadonk612
The cbet in hand 1 is borderline possibly but that TT hand is really butchered. Limp r/r is fairly bad with TT here in even the fishiest of lineups. Then you want to check a 9 high flop hoping MP without the preflop initiative will bet AK/AQ so you c/j. Yikes my eyes are bleeding at this point but it get's worse when we b/f a blankish 8 turn.
I don't know where to start....
Why is bet/folding the turn a bad thing? Do you really think that there are any bluffs in the villain's range when he raises the turn? If he wanted to bluff with some AQ/AK/KQ type hand, he would've done so on the flop. I didn't want to give the villain a free river card, hence why I bet, but I also didn't want to stack off against a range that's basically all higher overpairs and sets.
Another example of a hand which I played in an unusual manner, but I think it was pretty clever:
So I'm in MP with $600 effective stacks.
UTG (Laggish reg) raises to $15
I flat $15 with QJdd
BB also flats $15
$40 in pot (3 players)
Flop is Qh 7h 6s
BB checks, UTG bets $25, hero calls $25, BB folds
$90 in pot (2 players)
Turn is Kc
UTG bets $60, I raise to $160 and UTG calls
$400 in pot (2 players)
River is Qc
Villain checks and hero checks
I want to explain the weird turn/river line I took: after villain barreled, he had to have either a draw, a set, 2 pairs or perhaps a Kx or Qx hand that is thin value betting. If he has a set or 2 pairs, I want to know about it immediately, so that I don't have to face a $150 river bet and not know whether to hero call or not. I also don't want the river to be a J or Q and then have me lose even more money to a set or higher 2 pairs, thinking I have the best hand. I figured by raising the turn, my hand looks very strong (set or 2 pair) and villain will almost never 3bet as a bluff or semi-bluff. If he has a draw, I can extract an extra $100 from him the times when he doesn't barrel the river. If he has a monster hand like a set, he'll play it one of two ways: he'll either slowplay it (flat the turn and check-raise the river), allowing me to check back the river and get to showdown cheaply, or he'll fast play it (3bet the turn), allowing me to fold immediately and get out as cheaply as possible. So this just seems to be so much more advantageous to flatting the turn.
As for the river check, I figured that after I've represented so much strength with my turn raise, I'm probably never getting called by worse if I make a large river bet, and I also run the risk of getting check-raised if the villain has AQ or a boat, so it's safer to just check behind, as was my plan.
Thoughts on this line I took?