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I like to check-raise my better draws because of balance. If we're only raising strong, made hands then we are not balanced. That makes it easy for skilled villains to play accurately against us.
The kind of draws I like to raise are the draws I don't mind folding to a reraise, or the draws I don't mind stacking off with. Nut flush draws with a straight draw are the kind of draws I'm happy to lose my stack with. Weak flush draws on paired boards are the kind of draws I can fold when rerasied. I wouldn't raise a nut flush draw here because I would have to fold to a reraise, but it would suck to do so when we could have called instead of raising.
Balance is an important factor, not so much at these stakes but certainly as we move up. When we consider raising, we should ask ourselves "what else do we raise with?". If we're only raising sets and 2pr hands, then it's going to be hard to get value from them because good villains will simply fold, knowing they are beat. When villains see that we raise flush draws, it means that they can't fold their top pair hands so easily against our raises, which gives us value with our sets.
Balance is about asking oneself what our range looks like to other people, and ensuring that we're not playing face up.
I'm raising this flop because, as the big blind, we are the most likely person in the hand to have hit this flop. We can easily have 7x. If we have 7x, then we want to raise for value. If we're only raising 7x here, then villains won't continue with 9x or even AA. But if we raise 62hh, and villains know we can do this, then when we do have 7x, we get more money. 62hh is an ideal bluffing hand because even when we're called, we can still beat AA, and lots of other hands. If everyone folds to our raise, well we just won the pot with six high, fistpump.
If we get called and make the flush, we should proceed with caution, while thinking about how it impacts on the rest of our range. If we have 7x, then we don't like the heart. If we have a full house, we crush the board and can slow play with impunity. So I'd check-call the turn. If it checks through, then I'd bet the river, probably folding to a river raise.
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