reconsidering a value bet
 

This is a value bet that I always make, but this time right after I clicked bet I started to wonder just how much value there is in betting this. I guess i am hoping he has diamonds with the 9 or T?

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Preflop: Hero is Button with A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
UTG calls, Hero raises</font>, 1 fold[/i]</font>, BB calls, UTG calls.

Flop: (6.50 SB) A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (3 players)</font>
BB bets</font>, UTG folds, Hero raises</font>, BB calls.

Turn: (5.25 BB) 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (2 players)</font>
BB checks, Hero bets</font>, BB calls.

River: (7.25 BB) T[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (2 players)</font>
BB checks, Hero bets</font>, BB calls.

Final Pot: 9.25 BB

Re: reconsidering a value bet
 

any pp will pay off. you split with most aces. whatever, its fine. easy fold if raised.

also, a flush draw that picked up a pair will pay off too.

Re: reconsidering a value bet
 

what do you think about not raising the flop? How often do you think he has:

a) air
b) a pocket pair he folds to a raise
c) a better ace
d) a flush draw that he bluffs the river with but doesn't 3bet the flop

Against a lot of players I like just calling down. Am I losing too much value?

Re: reconsidering a value bet
 

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any pp will pay off. you split with most aces. whatever, its fine. easy fold if raised.

also, a flush draw that picked up a pair will pay off too.

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Re: reconsidering a value bet
 

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what do you think about not raising the flop? How often do you think he has:

a) air
b) a pocket pair he folds to a raise
c) a better ace
d) a flush draw that he bluffs the river with but doesn't 3bet the flop

Against a lot of players I like just calling down. Am I losing too much value?

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I like this line a lot in these situations against donks, but you should raise the river (planning on folding to a 3-bet unless the guy's particularly silly). Bad players will often pay you off with any pocket pair or any pair they happened to have picked up.

Re: reconsidering a value bet
 

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any pp will pay off. you split with most aces. whatever, its fine. easy fold if raised.

also, a flush draw that picked up a pair will pay off too.

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yeah yeah yeah. i know all this. i dont even know why i asked the question considering the guy called with K high no diamonds. i guess i just feel like one of my leaks is blindly value betting w/o really thinking about it but apperently this wasnt one that i need to think about [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

Re: reconsidering a value bet
 

you don't raise a diamond river, right?

Re: reconsidering a value bet
 

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you don't raise a diamond river, right?

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no

Edit: Because many of the worse hands I expect to pay off my river raise will check/call a diamond river, not because I'm particlarly afraid of diamonds. I think he has a small-medium pocket pair, 34, 45, Kx, or complete air fairly often here.

Re: reconsidering a value bet
 

Call the flop raise the turn check the river.

Re: reconsidering a value bet
 

yeah that line sounds good, although it would not have maximized my value out of K4o [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]