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Originally Posted by Fast Fold Poker
The problem that I have with betting small, is that we probably wouldn't be taking this line with a big pot hand would we? This sounds like a great bluff raise spot for villain. Also, why can't the villain have all sets here after flatting the rainbow flop? He even could float with all his Kx with a backdoor flush draw. I agree that the villain won't have loads of these hands and so the turn has a good chance of checking through in that case right, which for our hand is preferable than us betting small, so we should check and then 'see' if it checks through?
Also, does this hand change much if the flop is K,6,4 rainbow and the 9 comes on the turn? I guess we would check/call the flop in this scenario, but we would then have to check/fold the the same size pot of 14.5bb on the turn because the pot is threatening to get too big?
Finally, you say that rules about building the pot size to your hand strength are 'not good', but you don't really explain why. I thought that was the goal of poker, and that a big mistake fish make is that they build big pots with small and medium hands.
Rules are there for fish to not punt, which is fine. Good players should strive to understand each spot individually.
This is a very simple example:
BTN vs BB Single raised pot: Flop is 9c5s2h
You have JJ, suits don't matter, and you bet 200% the pot, villain calls, turn comes Q.
Villain has very few to no Q, and our hand has probably 75%+ equity. You can bet this hand.
Now rewind back. 9c5s2s. You bet 25% of the pot, villain calls, turn comes an offsuit Ace.
You have second pair in both scenarios, and in the first one the pot is bigger than the second one, but here, you have significantly lower equity because villain is going to call flop with a lot of Ax hands. Betting here is much worse, even though your absolute hand strength is the exact same and the pot is much smaller.