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Originally Posted by puppyies
Why would u not raise flop?
1. You're OOP
2. You're isolating yourself against better hands and good draws.
3. You're bloating the pot with a weak hand.
4. Why are we discouraging our opponent from betting everything? Folding out his bluffs is not a good thing.
5. You're value owning yourself when he has a made hand.
6. Our range doesn't have many strong hands here.
7. We open ourselves up to be 3-bet off the best hand because his range > our range here.
There's nothing good that comes from raising the flop aside from folding out a hand like A5s because it has 3 outs.
Imagine you c/r this flop, turn is 7s, you bet, river's 2s, what do you do? Rapid probably has a value bet here because people might think he's ******ed but against the typical micro player, what worse are you getting called by? You're just going to always c/f after bloating this pot otf and draws miss?
Good raising hands here (at least imo and perhaps I'm wrong) would be hands that we don't care to get 3-bet off of that have decent playability on future streets. Those hands include 4c5c, 67s, 7d8d, 5d7d. There's 6 good bluff combos to the 9 slam dunk value combos. That also neglects the other actual draws that we can c/r and shove here like 9cTc, AcTc, etc.. We can make calls with some mediocre hands, some good draws, some strong hands, and sometimes slow play great hands.