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Originally Posted by Amanaplan
Don’t you just think your best chance of getting value from a player who likely has an inadequate number of bluffs is to just bet three times? Checking the turn so he bets and then calls worse for value and then also calls a river just narrows him too hard - in addition to the times he just checks back turn any he realizes equity for free. It just all seems like a real bad way to play this hand against this type of guy - and then hoping he heros a Jx river is wildly ambitious/borderline nonsensical no?
Meanwhile his line does feel like a spazz with some missed combo draw.
It’s partly a balance thing for me... If I’m always taking a b/b/b line with my strongish hands, I have hardly any hands to defend when I cbet flop and check turn — I want villains to allow a free card to peel, play more passively against me, etc. Finding spots like this to check-raise helps me accomplish that goal...
And I have actually had people say, “I’m scared of betting against you and getting check-raise.” I don’t do it some crazy amount of times, but just check-raising the rare set in this spot and some random low equity bluffs (I would prefer to just barrel my high equity bluffs) will make me too exploitable when I bet flop, check turn. And I try not to overdo it with my double/triple barrels...
And I don’t like to get too passive (and take x/c lines) with my medium kicker kings unless I’m playing against somebody who I have pegged as particularly aggressive/bluffy, who is likely to continue bluffinf on the river after a turn x/c.
That being said, because I *can* be bluffing in this spot, yes I absolutely expect villains to call with KJ and KT and even pairs under the K, and I don’t really expect them to just check back a ton with really any pair.