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Originally Posted by getmeoffcompletely
The key concept here is duplication around the value region so that you have efficient bluffs. Not only the value region on the flop but also the value region of all your potential backdoor straights. If you didn't have bare 8x 9x Tx raising the flop then you would be left without bluffs when your backdoor 98, 87, T8 get there. The A kicker is selected because it has the best removal to villains value range and because his most likely floats are Ax. The spades are selected because villain is more likely to bet weak hands with backdoor flushes. So when you hold the spades it's more likely for him to have a bet fold.
Why is the call value for bd hearts significantly lower than the other bd flush draws while it's raise value is significantly higher?
Wouldn't the fact that you block A3s (the only 3x in their gto range) make it preferable both as a raise and as a call?
And I would think that early position opens have very few hands like 87s so that A8hh would not block their bet/folds much more than A8dd.