Defending against draws

[daven]

@ op, nice post

I hate positions like these. Too often i just shove, which is bad.

shoving here is bad, you're right.

Lets assume villain is on a flush draw with an over card to our Qs. Therefore he has approximately 45% equity. How do i play this hand?
So, given the premise, if i shove he has equity to call. If i bet, how do i size my bet to extract value? i.e. pot odds (%) > villains equity (%). I can't.

first thing is most important - Asssuming villain's calling range consists exclusively of say As8s (= forgetting the value you get from 78/79/88-JJ/etc) villain only has decent equity over two streets. But he isn't calling to two streets. If you are able to fold on spade/ace turns then he is calling to 12 outs meaning he only has about 25% to hit vs the 33% he needs to call if you pot it here. You don't need to worry too much as long as you don't give him crazy implied odds, and that's up to you.

Then if turn is a blank then you can fire again and he again has low odds to hit.

Hope that makes sense?

also,

Try to shift your thinking from "defending against draws" to "getting value from draws".

also

12 outs but meh. Ok, one of us is not applying the 2 and 4 rule properly. It is prob. me. Can somebody please confirm.

you got it dude. Get in irc if you're still stuck. Where in nz you at?