Re: Is the way I play this straight costing me money?
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Pot the flop, pot/push the turn
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Flop was 1$ into a 1.25$ pot.
I wanted top pair to pay me off and smaller straight to raise me on the turn.
On the river, with the straight and flush draw on the board, I didn't think a bigger bet would get called by a hand that I beat.
I do have doubts about this, plz point out mistakes in this kind of thinking.
What type of hands do you think would check/call the flop, check the turn, and then call a push/PSB?
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Some sort of JQ/JT/J9 sort of hand I guess he has here more often than not. The river is a bad card - as so often happens with straights. I like to bet real hard with straights (as so often there is a two-pair/pair+draw hand out there to play against). I want as much money as I can get into the pot before the scary card hits to slow me down.
Often QJ or JT will call a pot bet on the turn, and then when they hit the ignorant end of the str8 will pay you their stack on the river (kind of them huh !). Two pair might stick around, and you certainly want to charge sets and flush draws.
Flop was not a bad bet - but hit the turn really hard.
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