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Originally Posted by VerdantDevil
I don't know anybody who would actually do that though, so no
Really, any time a player will bet with some hands that he wouldn't call a bet with, betting and checking may have a different EV. It's pretty easy to say shoving seems EV and leave it at that, but a more intellectually rigorous method is to consider all possibilities. This is a simple situation and if we want to be the best player we can be, we owe it to ourselves to develop good habits.
We can solve this hand for this particular villain, but then we can consider if there are ways to exploit other villains. Against an opponent who will bet straights and sets but check behind with two pair and pair+straight draw type hands, should we still bet or should we check? This is a real villain profile that I have been up against, so I think it is a worthwhile question to ask. If we check and a player bets all hands they would call a shove with plus some hands they would fold to a shove, how many of those bluffs to they need in their range to make check/calling a more +EV line than betting out?