Sure.. Sometimes your hand
range is going to be pretty obvious. And to decent hand readers unless your taking -EV plays, then you likely can't avoid all the spots. However, it doesn't mean they are profitable exploiting you. Example:
Villain raises preflop, and I
call with
TT IP.
Flop is J73tt.
Villain cbets and I
call.
Turn is a
blank, and
villain checks. I
don't really think betting this
turn has much value, as I would expect
villain to maybe two-
barrel his
flush draws, and I
don't expect him to
check/
call too many worse hands. And I do beat the majority of villains hands at this time, so I decide to
check behind. Sure my hand
range has become pretty obvious now. I wouldn't have checked
behind with any of my nut hands {sets, overpairs,
TPTK, etc} and likely not many of my bluffs {floats}. So my hand in many cases is going to be a
marginal made hand with
showdown value. However, just because this is obvious, doesn't mean on the
river I'
m going to be really getting exploited.
Villain doesn't know if I"
m folding those hands to a
river bet, or calling. He doesn't know if there are other hands in my
range, like draws, etc. Against me, in particular,
villain should probably be betting this
river with a very high frequency, because I tend to
fold to a
river bet here because it seems it's usually for value. However, the majority of villains aren't betting with the appropriate frequency, and therefore my weak
range that I tend to
fold here, isn't being exploited all that much, if at all. Also, if we notice that
villain is trying to
exploit us and is betting the
river here with a very high frequency, we only need to make a small adjustment and we are now re-exploiting him. That adjustment is obviously to begin calling more.
Anyways, just my thoughts. Also, I think the
turn decision could be up for some debate also. Betting has a fair amount of merit to it also, and may even be best.