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Originally Posted by LordRiverRat
I'm not a fan of this whole "raise to protect my hand" mentality. I think all it does is fold most hands you're beating and isolate their range to strong hands. If you narrow it to just flushes and pair + FD even that range has good equity vs you where as if you flat the set their river betting range is much wider.
You've shared this opinion quite frequently on these boards, and while I think it's a concept that has a place in the arsenal, you may be overestimating its usefulness in low stakes games. A few rebuttal thoughts:
(1) In the particular hand we are discussing, a set is ahead of OP's range (IMO) and you will still get action from most hands in the range with a raise. Most LLSNL players have a hard time folding overpairs or pairs+FD, which as I mentioned earlier, I believe make up a majority of OP's range. I expect these hands to call a raise most of the time. This isn't a raise to "find of where I'm at", its a value raise to get paid off by hands that I beat.
(2) In general, I think there is a lot of value in avoiding situations where you may face a difficult decision that may result in you making a mistake. By raising the turn with a set, I believe the rest of the decisions in the hand come much easier.
(3) Finally, remember that you are not playing against yourself! When attempting to read an opponent and placing them on a range of holdings, we need to think about how THEY would play the hand, based on the information available to us from their previous actions. Otherwise you are removing potential hands from V's range because "lol only a fish would play [insert hand] this way, obv. he can't have that".