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Old 11-19-2005, 03:30 PM
Danenania Danenania is offline
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Default Re: check/raise, check/call?

Posting blind. This is a good flop to approach passively because you have pretty solid showdown value. Gonores made a post about this in Mid/High a couple months ago. The idea is to play draws with showdown value passively to get to showdown, and draws that can't win unimproved more aggressively since they have fewer ways to win. This also has the effect of toning down your flop aggression a bit, so that when you DO attack with a draw it should work better. For example, if you just check/called down in this hand, you'd probably have a lot better fold equity against him next time you flop a draw.

All that said, I like betting the turn given the way you played it once you pick up the pair. Players in this game are plenty savvy enough to check behind lots of A-high hands on the turn that would have called you down. You also might be raised by a worse hand or called by some draws that will now check.
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