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Checking the turn is by far the best play, why?

1) If he doesn't have a [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] he will just fold.
2) If he has us beat, he will raise and we lose more.
3) He is drawing thin/dead if we have the best hand, and we are drawing dead if we have the worst hand.

So unless the villian has a set (not likely IMO), we don't have to worry about giving a free card here. Give him some rope to hang himself if he doesn't have a [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. This is classic WA/WB. If our hand is good now, it will be good at showdown. If it isn't good now, it will lose at showdown.

Now if Entity held the nuts here, he would surely bet again with the hopes that either a worse hands calls down or raises. When you don't have the nuts, you should "slowplay" to avoid folding out a hand that is drawing dead and getting raised by a hand that has you in the vice.

For more on this, take a look at Mason's column in the July edition of the Internet Magazine.

Brad

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Nice post. I'll have to read Mason's article as I haven't seen this talked about too much, but you nailed my thinking pretty well.

Rob