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Originally Posted by vini.barbosa
On your position I would go for a call PF to control de pot OOP. You have a vulnerable hand and too deep to end it flop or turn with an allin.
Once you go for a raise, it seens that you could go bigger.
The straddle makes it $10. It seens that you have more than 4 callers, and by playing OOP the sizing should go bigger than normal to punish the ones that wants to call and give em worse odds.
I think $70-$90.
Thanks for the thoughtful response. I will say that I expected (having been at this table for a few hours) that my 55 raise would take it down preflop or narrow down to 1, maybe 2, callers. I was surprised when I got 3 callers.
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Originally Posted by vini.barbosa
As played I also think that a flop bet should go bigger. Half pot minimun to protect your vulnerable overpair and aiming to get a call from A5, 45, 65, 75 and FD.
With this bet many overcards can be paying with the right odds (K9, A9 included).
I've gone back and forth on this. my thinking was that there's going to be lots of hands that just whiffed this flop and they'll fold to any size bet, whereas anyone with the nut flush draw isn't folding even to a 3/4 pot size bet. But yeah i think you are right, something like 125 is probably better.
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Originally Posted by vini.barbosa
Turn I would go for a smaller size. 5s are not calling a 3/4-Potsize bet. Same for 66, 77.
I’m not sure what you are targeting here.
Better hands will call and worse hands will fold. I’d like a 1/3 pot Turn and reevaluate river.
But if you called PF the hand would have been alot simpler and you could be folding without investing that much money with a vulnerable hand OOP.
My idea was that a lot of the drawing hands he might have called with on the flop are not folding to 1/2 size bet and in fact are getting close to direct odds to call. So I went bigger targeting those hands. If I bet 1/3 pot I'm not sure I fold out any draws nor do I extract max value from them. I suppose I do get value from some PPs but those might call a larger bet anyways.