Straight Flush
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 7,148
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I thought it was a pretty accurate read. I especially liked the point that when we open in lp our opponents flat calling range is ahead of ours on a lot of flops. I also thought you put very well how you should play handsA few aspects I thought you missed.
1. You raise pre and get a call from the blinds. you have 65s, flop comes AK2 rainbow. He checks. Here you have essentially no equity against your opponents range. Yet, this is a great cbet board. But because you have no equity your flop cbet bluff would have to show an immediate profit for it to be +EV, which it doesn't versus a lot of opponents. If we decide versus an opponent we think its +EV to cbet 85% of our hands, check behind 10% as made hands, and check behind 5% non made hands, this would be a perfect candidate for the checking behind non made hand range.
2. When facing average to bad players/regulars, I find the most unbalanced range I face is call pre, check flop (I check behind), check turn. That range is nearly always super weak because players will lead the turn if they have any sort of good hand or draw. If your only checking behind weak made hands for pot control and value, then we have no way of exploiting this range. And since our opponents expect us to bet our air on high cbet boards, they likely wont try to make big calls. Our range is going to be pretty balanced anyways.
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