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Originally Posted by DK Barrel
Do you always get 3 streets of value?
A bet-bet-bet line for value against someone who consistently calls with a dominated hand is an excellent line.
Against a tight player, a bluff-bluff-bluff line won't work, because he will eventually fold, unless he has you beat. It's not like in Austin Powers, where the guy is compelled to answer your question if you ask it three times. The calling station will play that game with you, though, and he will win. You might say, well maybe he was on a flush draw, and missed, and I can take down the pot at the end. Maybe! But he might also have picked up a pair along the way. The game plays a lot easier if you have some idea in mind of just how little villain will call with OTR, and then bet if you are ahead of that range. That's called a value bet, and that's how you make money at 1/2.
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That's not specifically OP's problem here. His problem, he got caught at the end with no SDV. My advice would be, at 1/2, don't do that. Here, the 2h OTT didn't really fundamentally change anything, other than to put the flush draw on the board. The only reason to bet the flush draw would be to charge
villain for the draw. Here, OP charged
hisself. OP, don't tell me you were counting on fold equity. There is no more fold equity OTT than there was OTF, unless you're representing the deuce, eh?
Shoulda took the free card. Or, if OP was thinking, "I'll juice up the pot and disguise my hand so if I hit the flush I'll get paid off," that's cool. Didn't work out though. And so now, on the river, you're thinking, what. I've sunk all this money into the pot, can't walk away now. Hail Mary! With the fallacy of your thinking being, you absolutely CAN walk away. And sometimes you should.
Last edited by AbqDave; 02-13-2015 at 05:50 AM.