weak tight plays or just sensible?

why is everyone advocating giving him a free look at 2 outs?

Originally Posted by bikes

why is everyone advocating giving him a free look at 2 outs?

one benefit of checking is giving him a chance to reveal his handstrength on the turn, we should expect him to bet with all his better hands and check back most worst.

given he's not very good, he probably wouldn't necessarily assume that we'd bet all of our air/nuts and may give us some thin value more easily if we "show weakness" on the flop, where he might be more likely to fold JJ/TT. Against better players this logic falls down and betting the flop is obv better when they expect us to fire this flop almost always.