Do that. Just don't do it too much.

Heh, it was 5 years ago June through November 2007. But plenty of Buzz's articles have delved into flop textures.

Excellent post!

Just one comment/question about this:
I agree that any flop with 2 low cards is "wet". However, isn't a 345 flop in a way just as "dry" as a monotone flop? Or any flop with 3 low cards for that matter. As I understand it, wet=draw heavy but if the low is already possible, the board is no longer draw heavy in low direction. In fact, if 3 low cards flop it's going to make drawing to high hands much less profitable so doesn't such a flop automatically make the board "drier" as at least good players will recognize the fact that they often can not chase the draws for just high?

...quoted from my 2000th post...

As SOB points out this was sort of covered, but still I like this explanation.

C'mon Redhot I don't think it's nice to call him a SOB! He's trying to help us!

lol AFAIK (As Far As I Know) its his nickname!

Great thread, str8. I haven't said anything yet because I don't feel like I've processed the OP or read all the replies and I'd probably just repeat stuff.

What I'm really interested in, though, is how to apply this against somewhat aware opponents who intuitively understand that I haven't hit all the dry boards, e.g. above on J66r, "hero should probably bet his entire range, unless villians are the types to put hero on a hand and play accordingly." But what about against those types? Find a new game?

1) table select.

2) bet/calldown AJ** on the J66 board. QQ-AA too, obviously.

3) take a bet/call flop, raise wet turn line often with both your strong hands and your semi-bluffs. I wouldn't normally bet/3-bet this flop.

4) play more high hands and the very best of middling cards: 7643ds, JT98ds, A765ds, etc. it will allow you to legitimately attack most flops.

The answer is you have to try harder and really pay attention to how often and how weak they will attack these boards, are they up or down when they attack etc. etc.

Or you could cop out and find GTO. Str8 is pretty close.

It's been my experience that there is a subset of O8 players that compulsively bet dry boards, and this subset can contain any level of player--from the very best to the very worst. I think the optimal exploitative strategy has to be individuated for each opponent, and can be tricky for the very bad ones since they are perfectly capable of showing up with the goods on some pretty squirrely boards.

Why not calldown worse Jxxx? Is it your estimation that with something like 23JT, villain has too much equity with his airballs (i.e. an overcard or two to the Jack), and that it's important to have a high kicker with the Jack?

we generally don't even play J!(A,KK-JJ), but in theory, you're correct.
many villians who raise these boards are polarized. against them, AJ54 and J432 play about the same...

Yeah, I was assuming this referred to a blind steal situation where we open on the button with Jxxx (I'm guessing 23JT is near the bottom of our opening range) and villain defends and auto-check-raises the J66 flop.

I would have guessed that calling down with any Jack would probably be profitable, because they should be heavily polarized as you mentioned. Maybe even calling down with something like A2TT or worse, though at some point the smaller the pair we are calling with, the greater equity villain has with his bluffs in addition to his strong hands. I haven't run the numbers, but say A4TT probably doesn't have much equity even against a random hand.

Edit: I just ran A4TTr vs. a 10-50% hand, and it has just slightly over 50% equity on a J66r board (53%).

I'd imagine a substantial amount of that comes from backdoor low equity. When we're talking about HU situations where both players figure not to have flopped much, I'm sort of thinking the rules about chasing backdoor lows go out the window. Of course it's not that we're just chasing backdoor lows; it's that A2Kx on J66 can easily scoop by spiking against an opponent whose range is wide enough not to always have a six. But having the backdoor low to bail us out a substantial amount of the time when our opponent has a six or AA can empower us to pick off more bluffs.

That said, I still drastically overestimate my opponents' propensity to bluff.