100NL full: Opponent is good and loose and capable of anything...

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Wrong, this is not even close to being enough to protect your hand.


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You give him 1:3 pot odds when you bet 1/2 the pot. An opponent is about 1:4.9 to hit a straight (8 outs) and 1:4.2 to hit a flush (9 outs) on the turn. You'll be keeping an eye on reads so you don't pay him off too much when he hits, so you keep his implied odds down.

That's my reasoning for it being enough to protect your hand. I'd be interested to hear why you think it is inadequate.

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This type of bet is inadaquate simply because you lose a lot of value assuming that your opponent is calling you with an inferior holding (ignore river context, let's pretend he really did call down with 99), since cash games are all about extracing the maximum amount of value from each hand, betting half the pot would decrease your winnings.