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Originally Posted by CountAnt
Hey SamBJam,
I'm from Oklahoma and just beginning to learn the game. I was wondering what your thoughts would have been if the Bb had bet about 1/3 pot post-flop? It seems like it still gives around pot odds for a flush draw and wouldn't have driven away too many hands that the Bb could have extracted value from down the road anyway. I guess their thinking was to disguise their strength for when/if straight draws get there. What would you have done?
First off, welcome fellow Okie. I like this question.
So let me discribe some more about the hand. UTG player is covered in Superman Logos, shirt, hat, phone, chip protecter. He is Aggressive and has been leading and continuation betting alot. BB is a WSOP Circuit grinder from what I could gather, apparently decent as he said he did well at the WSOP circuit that was just in Vegas at the RIO. While we are playing a local reg women comes by to say hi to her husband and looks at BB and announces how good this player was in the tournament.
BB is not very Aggressive. He calls alot pre and post and does he raising on the turn and river.
So when the flop comes and we both hit our flush we both were checking to induce UTG to continuation bet.
Either one us should have raised here. His Straight flush is well disguised and now only 1 player is left to act. He should have put in a small bet here, like 1/3 pot as you suggest.
If BB raises 1/3 pot on the flop after I check, assuming UTG folds and the action is back on me. I would check/raise here. If he jams or raises I can fold. If he just calls the check raise and we make it to the turn, I would be in a tough spot.
If he just calls my raise, (which he should holding the nuts) I can narrow his range alot. He is either slow playing an Ace high flush, or has Ac10x, Ac9x, some kinda nut flush draw with a straight draw, or a random bluff.
Out of position against a good opponent I like to keep the pots small.
Once we get to the turn I am pretty much shutting down, if he value bets small and gives me good pot odds I can call small bets. But after I check raise flop and he doesn't fold I have all info I need.
Hope that helps, let me know what you think.