Re: playing underpairs aggresively
My personal thought here is that if you want to get aggressive with this hand it should be on the earlier streets:
1. If you want to play this hand, I prefer a pre-flop three-bet. Put the burden on your opponent to make a pair, hopefully shut out the monkey so he can't hit a pair to beat you, and force your opponent to make a bunch of bad folds on flops that look scary to him.
2. As played, I prefer a flop check-raise. The monkey will have a harder time calling with crap. Three-handed, you'd like a medium club to fold, as that may be the only club left. If you check-raise and lead the turn the ABC guy will have a pretty hard time calling without a big club, a K, or better. In general, the pot is small enough that you can generate quite a bit of leverage in this pot without having to wait until the big bet streets to do so.
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