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Originally Posted by SetofJacks
How would you adjust your play to exploit this tendency?
The only hands that make sense to 4 bet on this flop are strong hands that should continue firing the turn or drawing hands with good flop equity that will no longer have such good equity on a blank turn.
Strong players tend to preserve wider ranges where they can to disguise the strength of their hand. Once you have decided to 4 bet the flop, you have already given away significant information about your range. Further dividing it into bets and check backs on the turn is going to make the nature of your holding obvious to anyone who can hand read.
We can generally exploit the tendency to free-card by fast-playing strong hands and slowing down with draws on the flop. With strong hands, we just keep firing in more bets, so every attempt at a free card results in our opponent putting in additional bets as an equity dog. Our draws don't need to bluff the flop or turn anymore because they have hugely profitable river bluffing opportunities after turns are checked back. Based on whether our opponent bets the turn, we can determine whether we need to hit our draw or whether we should bluff the river. And we can take advantage of the turn free card ourselves when we are an equity dog.
Our medium strength hands can still exploit the hands raised as a bluff by loosely 3 betting flops while saving bets against the strong hands that raise us on the turn.
I should note some players attempt to balance a free card play by raising the flop with medium strength hands that attempt to get the right amount of action by transferring normal turn action to additional flop action. The problem with this is they are making assumptions about future play to justify a currently -EV play. This strategy should therefore be exploitable by introducing a donking range on the turn.