caveat:
it should be mentioned that there is a lot of important stuff which is missed out of that convo which is relevant to the topic. board texture is a huge one - we shouldn't be firing three barrels indiscriminately on all boards (against villain in hand 1). we want it to be boards like
8h 6s 4s Td Kh
where villain's flop and turn ranges contain a ton of weak draws and single pair + draw hands (which we know from our notes) which will peel the flop and turn liberally, but often wind up with a mediocre one pair hand and/or missed draw on the river (for example - T9,98,87,76,65,54,43 as well all as all the flush draws - on the above board). this runout is obviously pretty ridiculously perfect to fire 3 on, they're not always this sweet. but you get the idea.
the other thing is pot equity. betting with pot equity always has a significantly higher EV in a vacuum than betting with no equity at all. that's why semi-bluffing is cooler than pure bluffing most of the time - the term "semi-bluff" implies we have pot equity. so if we have a decent amount of pot equity with a non-made hand (FD, OESD + 2 overs) AND some fold equity then we generally should be being aggressive. "pot equity + fold equity = aggression" - Spoonitnow
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