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Originally Posted by BigWhale
Not sure how much you had behind here, but I believe pot size is 7500 on the turn. I think 2700 is way too small here, and doesn't accomplish anything besides building up the pot a bit if you hit. Maybe you can get a Tx to fold from the player stuck in the middle here, but that's about it.
Anything from 7k-10k seems like a good turn size, and then just give up river unimproved. Definitely not a tournament expect, but we should try to put Kx in a tough spot here on this street with all our equity.
I think this really highlights the difference between cash game and tournament mindsets: the adjustment made for bet sizing.
In cash games, when everyone has 100, 300 big blinds or more in front of them, it’s basically never correct to bet less than 50-75% pot.
But in tournaments, 30-50 big blinds is actually quite a lot. I think I of bet sizing in tournaments as, do I want to set up this spot to get stacks in, or not?
There’s also the point Harrington and Miller first made… every chip you lose hurts you MORE than every chip you gain helps you. I think this is why you see such small preflop raises, and half pot or less cbets.
Still, I think your point is a good one. If my bets are close to 1/3 pot, even in a big pot, that’s too attractive a price for almost any holding that gets to the turn this way.