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Originally Posted by poskid
I disagree that the board is favorable. It's not a terrible board but our range doesn't love this flop. AK and AQ don't play this hand the same way making large bets on the flop and turn.
Actually, you
are supposed to bet large a significant % of the time with both AK and AQ otf here. Villain has to call a number of Ax hands even vs a 75% pot bet, and even some Kxs. Additionally, villain also has to fold some 66-44 to a flop bet, so AK/AQ are in a funny spot where you can get worse hands to call, but also better hands to fold (assuming villain is actually somewhat competent)
AK/AQ does pretty much pure x ott, but there are plenty of other "bluffs" in our range that we can bet the turn with (mostly random broadway hands at a low frequency)
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Originally Posted by poskid
We value own ourselves with that part of the top of our range betting big. So really the only hands that we have that like betting big here are over pairs which are vulnerable to suited connectors and sets.
Yes, it is true that a decent chunk of villain's range is 87s/88/77/33/22 ott, however, villain's range also contains a number of hands that we can either continue to get value from (TT-88,55,44, and a few spade draws), or deny equity to (mainly Ax/Kx hands that called a flop bet)
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Originally Posted by poskid
By betting big we give him the opportunity to play well against us. I prefer to not allow my opponents to play nearly perfectly against me.
Not sure where you get this idea that betting larger gives villain an opportunity to play perfectly vs us. Quite frankly, I feel very strongly that you have no clue how to perfectly play vs a 75% pot bet as CO
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Originally Posted by poskid
Playing for stacks here feels bad and we're likely losing a big pot when it gets big. Small pot poker is underrated.
On this runout we're checking river if we bet big otf and ott. But there are a number of rivers where we are actually going to want to b/b/j with this hand
Small pot poker is for weaker hands, and this doesn't become a weaker hand until the river