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i would be lost and pretty much any turn.
I suggest you study the value of checking back the turn and river, while reserving the right to bet when checked to on good turn and river cards. Then compare that ev to the ev of checking the flop vs an Ace and King heavy set of ranges for your opponents.
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You're in position though
exactly. the in position player has the last word in many pots. figure out how to use this to your advantage. hint: unless you're drawing dead, checking is always profitable. the closer you are to the button, the more you get to profit by checking. For example, I once chopped a pot with the nut low. While this outcome was unlikely, it still added to my winrate; it was an undeniable source of profit for me.
To put it another way, if you never win free showdowns, you either bet way too much or you're in a very wild game vs players that try to win every hand.
Some very tight preflop players can get away with the "bet too much" qualifier above, as the ev they lose from missed free showdowns is gained as protection value earlier in the hand. Some tough opponents out there use this strategy as default and make exploitive strikes from that advantageous position. Tight tags are not to be trifled with.
Loose players are those that benefit the most from the free showdowns, naturally, as the more equity they realize for free, the more correct a wide range approach becomes.
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So a hand that may be strong enough to bet for value heads up is not strong enough to bet for value multiway.
Right. Think about button range construction and which spots are those where the button makes money? If you're getting action on your button raises, you want the action to come from the big blind. Only huge hands really welcome the action from the small blind. With the (avg hand in your range) you prefer they all fold, but if someone is going to play I'm hoping it's the big blind. Thus naturally the button's ev will suffer as a result of the small blind calling(if someone is profiting by calling in the small blind, they're taking away profit from the bettor and sharing it with the big blind).
This is why it's imperative to tighten your button range with a loose aggressive player in the small blind.
This is also why (tight small blind + loose passive big blind) is the ideal blind combination for the button's ev as you can play a lot of hands and realize a ton of equity for very cheap on average.
So how does that all relate to cbet freq 3way in a SRP with strong opponents? Preflop range construction dictates blind defense range dictates flop strategy. Postflop play then is a "crime of opportunity" in the sense that we are presented with decisions preflop that lead us to postflop situations and the opportunity to make good plays or bad plays postflop.
What do you(anyone) think a good set of (btn vs sb vs bb) ranges look like for 2x bb pfr, 2.5x bb pfr, 3x bb pfr, 3.5x bb pfr? Of course it should happen most often in a 2x bb pfr pot and least often in 3.5x bb pfr, and the ranges for each should vary with preflop raise size.