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Old 12-14-2005, 03:57 AM
callydrias callydrias is offline
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Default Re: Curious for your thoughts (something from ToP)

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This looks like a standard stop and go to prevent the free card. In full ring games, I think this line is fine. I think that in Short Handed games, free cards are taken way less often, so this advice doesn't really need to be followed so much. I check raise the turn here, because villain will most certainly bet again.

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If Villain is really semibluffing, then he has outs. Checkraising builds the pot so that he has better, or even correct, odds to call your raise. Donking gives him a chance to make a bigger mistake by calling on the turn. And you'd rather not have to face a 3-bet if he has a real hand.

Controlling pot size is something I need to do some more thinking about after having recently run across it in HEFAP and HGIYLHE.
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