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Join Date: Oct 2004
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Originally Posted by bode
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Originally Posted by IowaSkinsFan
Try to play in such a way that easily defines your value bets and your bluffs
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can you explain this further? I thought that we want to balance our bluffs and value bets? |
Yeah we do.
Look at it this way. We raise preflop with 98s, get a lagg caller from the blinds.
Flop comes 58T two spades, we have none. He checks. If we bet this flop, our value bets and bluffs are not easily defined. If we bet A3 here (very reasonable play) we may fold out something like 64, which we were beating. We can get called from out cbet with 98 by A8, or even T9, JT, some hand like that. We can even get blown off our hand by a worse hand like a fd, total air, 97, j9, qj, etc.
And lets say he calls and the turn comes a 3. He checks again. We think we're ahead a good amount so we could bet again, we could even fold out a better hand like a bad T or a better 8, and sometimes we just value town ourselves. We set ourselves up to play against a range where we really don't know whether we are value betting or bluffing, because it can really be either.
Now if we check behind the T85 flop, and the turn comes a 3. He checks again, We can go bet turn bet river pretty easily as a value bets.
I'm not saying we should check behind in this situation always or w/e, but it explains the concept of it.
Note: This is my understanding of a concept that was explained to me that makes a ton of sense, I very well could be wrong, Sauce or gabe could check me on this one.
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