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I understand your thinking here but why play an approach that induces villans to bluff you.

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I didn't. I would've been happy if he checked behind and mucked. He bet big and I began thinking about his range and reasons for doing this. I had no prior thinking of, "I'm gonna let him bluff big so I can snap it off with my A3."

It's like you said, my hand looked weak, like a missed draw. I thought his bet screamed of desperation so I looked him up. I wasn't already thinking of how I'd be snapping off some PSB on the river when I checked the flop.


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A more aggressive line will lead to villans checking down rivers to your A high versus having to make heroic 20 calls...

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I didn't have to make the call. I didn't want to be in the position to where I had to make that call. Again, I would've been very content with him condeding the pot by checking behind. If he woulda bet like $8 I would've folded. The bet was fishy so I began thinking.