Quirky blind steal battle - A9o

[JoshuaD]

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Your giving him all the control in his hand, he's always going to be betting the river with better hands and checking through worse ones.

This is exactly why I hate taking my foot off the peddle, his little flop charade is not going to give him the hand; but thats just me.

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I think it's alright for him to have control here. We're weak as all get-out. Lead just doesn't do much for us.

If we didn't have two weak draws here I'd definitely bet/fold the turn and check behind the river, but I do NOT want to pay two with our hand, and this is the sorta villian who could make that C/R.

The only thing betting does, IMO, is protect us from someone who has 2-6 outs. In this small pot I'm willing to give up that so I don't pay two with this weak draw.

Edit: And it also protects us from annoying bluffs, which this villian also seems capable of.