Hands you hate to admit you played (LC)

[tansoku]

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This is not a "maths" situation. It is simply a matter of 3 things:
1. There are a lot of nice looking hands that like to fastplay the flop with you (such as pair+straight draw).
2. The board could deteriorate (4-straight), causing you to lose action from a lot of hands.
3. Your opponent will still feel the need to showdown if you fastplay, because you could easily be semibluffing a straight draw.

Fastplaying the flopped straight here is the best play here by no short measure, just as it nearly always is HU.

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Thanks for the response. Understanding why to play this general situation fast is much better than 'because ALL1N says so' even though the latter would be reason enough.

FWIW, he would have seen me as 24/14/2 with ATSB of around 30 at that point. Which may give credence to Robk's comment on the chk being suspicious, although I don't know how much he'd really notice this.

Thanks again for all the comments. I got a lot more out of this than I expected.