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Old 04-27-2005, 12:01 PM
cmwck cmwck is offline
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Default Re: This guy is killing me...

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Flushes don't occur that often. This is an easy turn bet with position.

Button picked up a straight on the river.

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My question is, does betting the turn punish an open ended straight draw at that point?

10 to 1 seems like odds are in his favorite to begin with, if he's gonna call anyway without knowing the odds are good what point is betting?

I guess my real question is, how does betting the turn in this position help my hand?

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Because it's +EV. If you have the best hand, which you probably do, and he's getting correct odds to call a bet with a drawing hand, checking is certainly +EV, because most of the time (>50%) his draw will miss. But betting is _more_ +EV. You can calculate the EV for yourself.
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