[maryfield48]

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The idea of raising is to protect your hand from overcard draws those times that it's ahead. Hand protection, obviously, is a very important concept, but I think it might be slightly misapplied here. For one thing, there's less incentive to protect your hand when you're not all that confident that it's the best hand. For another thing, two other players have already put in money here, and they're almost certainly going to see a turn card if their hands have any sort of outs to beat yours. For another thing, the pot isn't *all* that large.

Calling isn't necessarily awful in this spot.

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It felt fishy though. I mean I did and all, because I've seen a few turn raises recently that were bluffs.

But I felt 'dirty' while I was doing it.

I felt even worse when the river was a ten. Villain had K7o.