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Originally Posted by where2buyluck?
Wow, very informative guys thank you very much I will take it all on board!
Preflop action was just a 3x raise by villain and I called after him, everyone else folds. That's why I raised his C-bet to say I hit the 'Q'
When I was up against this guy I know he wanted to stack off because we were the 2 biggest stacks at the table and in the top 10 the current standings out of 3000 runners. And to be honest I wanted his stack, so I got it in but just question why they raise all in on a draw?
Probably the next questions is, I will change to calling the flop and if the turn blanks like it does most of the time, is me shoving here going to deter such a player from risking all his chips to see the last card? or should I see the river as cheaply as possible. What would you do?
When you raise the c-bet on the board, you're not really saying you hit the Q - at least not that often. You're really saying that you either have a set or a draw, or maybe air some part of the time. Your range is much more polarized than it would be if you had just called.
That makes it easy for our opponents to play well. If they have a premium draw or a set, they're going to consider getting their stack in. If they have worse hands, like a worse Q, or some kind of second pair, or air, they're going to fold - and quite frankly, our opponent is going to have way more of those type of hands than premium draws and sets. When we call, we keep all of our opponents bluffs in, and all of our opponents worse hands in that they might bet for perceived value.
If you call the flop and the turn blanks, it depends on what our opponent does. If our opponent checks, I think making a reasonable 2/3 bet on the turn is fine with your hand because you don't have a diamond (making it more likely our opponent has a diamond draw) and if our opponent had a draw they'd often fire at the turn as well. If our opponent bets, I'd evaluate based on the size of the bet, but more often than not I'm calling at least one more street with top pair and evaluating river.