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Originally Posted by DSA Stephen
Maybe protection was a wrong word, but non club pp are more of a slave to the run out so we want to rush our equity more, with a club we are less bothered. Also yes kk with a club is higher equity but that doesn't mean the highest EV play is always to put a much money in as fast as possible for example when we have a high equity hand that locks down the board with will often trap in many nodes of the game tree to allow villain to catch up
Bloating the pot on early streets with hands that don't/can't play big pots on certain runouts doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
The big issue i have with playing a x/c line is it requires us to think villain is going to pile money in the pot with 9x, tt, jj, and other similar strength hands. Most of villains range is pp, Ax, and random middle cards. We already have a data point that indicates passive play, so we can't expect a hand like AT to barrel turns where it doesn't improve, so we allow villain to see 2 cards in position for 2.5BB when we x/c. On the other hand, getting villain to put in a bet with Ax and then fold it to a x/r is a massive win for us.
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