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Originally Posted by Mr Rick
If we are going to bet fold the river then do a blocking size bet like the turn bet size of 2500. Worse hands will love to call and better hands will raise although some will just call knowing you will likely fold with worse anyway.
That size is actually worse, because then you miss out on value from your best hands and JT is still just a zero-EV call/fold to a shove as it's one of your most marginal thick value hands.
The rationale behind a non all-in size, IMO, is that you get a lot of Kx that would be indifferent at best to a jam to call at a high frequency, while leaving yourself the option to fold to a jam. It's a less profitable play in theory than shoving, but if your opponents are going to call too wide to that bet and only jam when they have you beat, it actually has a lot of value. Especially in scenarios where a lot of the worse two pair and one pair hands that would fold to a jam call the smaller bet.
Last edited by jpgiro; 05-01-2024 at 11:27 PM.