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Originally Posted by westwd
If that's the case you need to bluff more, exploit the fact that they wont call a second barrel with top pair 4 handed.
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It depends whether your specific opponent is monitoring your frequencies and picking up on bet sizings. If instead they're mostly looking at their absolute hand strength and assuming that your big sizes are absolutely stronger hands and your small sizers are absolutely weaker hands - then you can exploit them both ways.
1) bet big with your no-showdown-value semibluffs to maximize fold equity.
2) bet a more callable amount with your TPTK+ to maximize value.
I'm not saying this particular hand is the best spot to do this - many experienced players are saying just bet it big on the turn and I'm happy to accept I'm wrong and they're right. So here I'm discussing the idea in general.
I'm not saying we shouldn't ever balance our ranges and avoid using different bet sizes for different hands. Against many players in my game I do have to be careful to be at least somewhat balanced. However, there are also many players who aren't thinking at that level or paying much attention and I think I can exploitatively alter my sizings without them catching on (for a while at least!)