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Originally Posted by Garick
The point is that it's pretty much always a good idea to get more money I'm the pot when you're ahead.
But, as always, there are counterarguments for this as well.
Ex. We see an A72r flop in position HU as the aggressor. The limp/caller checks to us. In one situation, we have KK. In another, we have T9s. Clearly we likely have far more hand equity (i.e. are ahead) in the KK case than in the T9s case. Does that mean we should be betting it more often?
There are other examples too, such as when you are sure you are ahead of a Villain's drawing hand, but he won't call a turn bet (cuz he's good enough to know he doesn't have the odds to do so) but will bluff almost always if you weakly check the turn and he whiffs his draw.
Just because we likely have the best hand isn't reason alone for getting more money in the pot; sometimes it is, but sometimes it isn't.
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