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Originally Posted by Bill Haywood
Why?
Lots of reasons, but mostly because we should be checking a lot of hands in this situation (EP open raise, two in position callers == LOTS OF CHECKING). The hands we want to bet with are primarily hands we want to stack off with and on this board I don't think we have enough blockers to want to stack off. When I say a lot of checking, I mean we can almost range check here.
This is simply not a hand you want to be betting because it lacks visibility on future streets, there are very few good turn cards for us where we will be able to barrel again out of position, and if we get to the river after firing two streets we will be a tricky situation on basically all run outs except runner runner flush. We basically have bad equity against 3 opponents despite the absolute rank of our hand at the present moment. We also want to control the pot because if we play it like hero and money goes in and the pot gets huge we will usually be in trouble or have to fold like this. We have showdown value we want to realize, but not enough we want to play a monster yet.
So, we check and see. We can either fold, call, or raise when it gets back to us.