Quote Originally Posted by borges
Quote Originally Posted by JKDS
Quote Originally Posted by borges
If we are OOP, we should check/call for 3 streets with
TT-KK??? Doesn't this turn our hand face up to the villian??? Can't a villian then say to himself after the first check/call? He doesn't have an ace, I can rep the ace and push him out of the pot?
if we were to check call 3 streets with these hands, this would be the reason
OK JKDS, so for example suppose he shoves all-in on the turn or even makes a large bet, shouldn't we be reevaluating this line at this point? Our hand now just becomes a bluff catcher since we don't even have TPTK. The so-called "Baluga Theorem" (named after the poster Baluga Whale on 2+2), basically says that when the opponent bets big or goes all-in on turn, one pair is no good. I'm not saying I know what is right here....I'm just questioning and trying to understand.
Villain could exploit our check/call range because it's not balanced. We could adjust by occasionally checking monsters. If he doesn't exploit our check/calling range, then making it less exploitable by checking monsters wouldn't be of much use.

Quote Originally Posted by iopq
Quote Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
Quote Originally Posted by iopq
I cbet all of my range for 1/2 pot
I try to get it in with nut hands and nut draws, flat raises with TPTK
Imagine if the opponent had only this read on you, "cbets indiscriminately." How much money do you lose if he check-raises you close to 100% of his range?
I only cbet ace-high and king-high boards 100% of the time. If he check-raises me on all ace-high and king-high boards he's going to lose money because those are the boards that hit my range the hardest.
The reason I broke down the sample range in the OP was so that hopefully someone would mention possibilities for this type of analysis. We should examine how we play each part of our range (and what portion of our entire range each part is) to determine where we can be exploited. This is the major point of this thread, to introduce analysis to a fairly simple but common spot (continuation betting when we have a strong range) instead of blindly following whatever we've been taught to do.