Re: Extracting maximum value when hitting the flop: Early Rounds
A pot is defined not by the winning hand, but by the losing hand.
If they have nothing, they wont call any size bet (in theory). If they have something most (bad) players will justify a call anyway.
You can get tricky if there arent so many draws out there.
When its a high draw flop like this one, i never bet less that 1/2 pot. If they want to get involved, so be it. If the turn is a blank, bet much larger, at least 2/3 pot. If the river is favourable, bet the same 2/3 pot.
Remember, its better to drive players out than take the chance that one may stick around and hit his gutshot to beat you. By this respect, its much less bad to overbet than it is to underbet.
I dont like cookie-cutter type rules and lines, but if you want one size fits all, the line above isnt far off imo. The perfect line has too many variables to list (and we are talking Gigabet territory for player capable of nearing the perfect line) and the more realistic 'near perfect' line takes into account a lot more factors than most beginning players can account for - to give one example the reads that you have of that player, which is clearly flawed when it comes to multitabling in most instances.
Phill
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