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Originally Posted by killians3
If you saw my response, curious for your feedback. ty
My apologies for forgetting I'd asked you that question.
The reason I ask is I've seen a lot of players who are not properly rolled for the stakes they're playing being hesitant to make correct plays, especially when the correct play is to raise in a spot where you won't USUALLY have the best hand. If you have even 2.5K much less 25K available for poker (that is, not one penny of it needed to pay rent, food, utilities, alimony, garnishments etc.) this is probably not you. So I apologize for the following information being useless to you
I probably raise the turn when I make top pair and expect to have the best hand significantly more than 33% of the time. I know that 50%-60% of the time I'm going to be up against a set or two pair and feel silly for "wasting the extra bet", but the other 40%-50% of the time I'm going to win the hand and will be glad I played aggressively.
Another example (not from your hand) is when people have JJ preflop (and to a slightly smaller extent TT). A lot of players are hesitant to shovel money into the pot preflop with those 2 hands because bad flops come so often. But JJ will flop 3 undercards or a set 45% of the time. So JJ will make the best hand WELL more often than (for example) 1 time in 6 (if you have a 6-way pot before the flop), so you should bloat the pot while you have the equity advantage. (Note - JJ is even stronger in shorthanded pots. It's very rare you won't show down JJ with only 1 or 2 other villains in the pot).
AK is an automatic 4-bet preflop in a 5-way pot when the cap is 3 raises. 100% of the time. Again, players who aren't rolled are often hesitant to raise AK AT ALL until they know whether or not an ace or king will flop.