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Originally Posted by setintostraight
Yeah no, blindly shoving your stack (100+ BBs) into a wet board where we only get called by straights and flushes (in this hand) is not a cooler.
I made enough of these mistakes in my first 30 hours to chose my forum ID specifically to remind myself to double check the board before playing sets like this.
Against unknowns, I just pot control this and check back turn. We can eval the river card then, but generally speaking I'm less concerned about a paired board killing action here. But my card room is nittier than average, so betting turn after raising is unlikely to get called by anything lower than a flush.
Maybe in your nittier than average card room. In which case you should start bluffing a lot more, especially on these types of boards if you always get credit for a flush which is just lol.
Another note we are playing the pot HU vs the opener who will have a lot more strong Aces in his range that could contain a club, also KQ-QJo containing just one club that could have floated given that hero did not make the raise too big. So there are lots of hands we still get value from and hands that can be like **** it ALLIN if they picked up some equity on the turn. We don't always run into a flush.
I can't really get behind having a range of only flushes when we are value betting this turn. Its far too narrow, and with so many worse hands out there that can still continue I think that betting will be the more profitable play. Sometimes you run into a flush and value-own yourself but you can still draw to the full house but most of the time you will have the better hand and stack this guy as he feels committed to calling the river once the pot gets so big. Checking lets villain get away from the hand too cheap IMO.