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Originally Posted by OmahaFanatical4
That's a little simplistic. You also bet to get weak hands to fold, rather than giving them infinite odds to draw out on you.
While there are rare occasions like this, its just no. No you dont. Getting worse hands to fold marginal equity is a bonus when you bluff bet or value bet, but rarely will the little value of worse hands folding even out the cost of when we get called or c/r by better. Eg when you vbet KK on KT6fd its nice if someone folds 987 no fd, but tahts not why you bet. You bet to get called by sets, two pair combo draws and pure draws
Cliffs: No!
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You can also bet because this will lead to good turn and river situations, say when you have a big draw and you are in position. By building a pot on the flop you will be able to make big turn and river bets if you hit.
No! Then you are betting your draw to make better hands fold. Its a bonus when you get called and hit turn and you get to bet your now made hand. But the reason for betting the flop was bluffing, nothing more, nothing less
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Another reason to bet is to develop an aggressive attacking image that will cause your loose opponents to call you but at the same time make them afraid to make moves on you. Caro wrote extensively on this last comment.
This is wrong and useless. I dont care who this Caro is, but I guess its a LOL live pro who binked a few tourneys pre 2003 and then wrote some pathetic book.
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Passive play loses. Aggressive play wins. While there are tactical exceptions where you should choose a passive play as a general strategy being passive is very weak and will lose money.
No! just No! Typical 2003 thinking, but it has no foundation in basic game theory. But a lot of regfish subscribe to this thinking, just like you. Thats why you have these overaggressive players who just bet, because they think they need to be aggressive to win. Even at mid stakes. Funny story: They dont win, sometimes the b/e or win like 2bb/100 but more often than not they will be losing rakeback grinders.
I think a lot of posters here would be very surprised if they new the agg frequencies and cbet frequencies of rly good mid-hi stakes crushers.