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Originally Posted by ArtyMcFly
You want to be able to have the nuts in your range on the turn whether you check or bet. If you always bet all your FDs on the flop, then villain would know you never have a flush on the turn if you check back and the FD gets there, so he could exploit that by repping it to make you fold.
since this seems to be an argument in favor for "mixing", i want to show my disagreement. in almost all practical situations there will be a higher EV line. players being balanced to an extend where actual gto indifference appears seems to rarely happen at the tables. so that leads to the second part of the argument: there is no "the FD" and different flushdraws have different maximum ev lines, getting you a natural "mixing". for instance, you might want to c/c the NFD because it has showdown value with the A high, but check raise the smaller ones. or on the one card straight boards you have some pair+SD, some SD+BFD,some naked GS, all those hands play differently by themselves so mixing isn't required.
it is good to have gto lines in mind, but if they lead to mixing in spots where there is a clearly max EV line against a certain exploitable opponent, it is actually doing harm. it is important to keeping in mind that gto is not actually trying to balance ranges, but maximizing the EV of each individual hand.
fwiw my main argument was supposed to be regarding the op: you should NEVER mix in this spot. try to find out if betting or checking has better ev and then always do that. mixing is just an excuse for not knowing what to do.