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Message: [QUOTE="fundiver199, post: 6597343, member: 397965"] Preflop Yes I think, this is a standard defend given his sizing. Flop Check-calling and check-raising both have merits. If you check-raise all draws, you are overbluffing, because you dont have that many hands, that want to check-raise for value (44, 33, 43s). However one element, which has not been mentioned, is that the bet comes from the field caller not the preflop raiser. This means, he has a weaker range, since he likely 3-bet QQ, KK and AA preflop. Even AQ and KQ are often 3-bet, given that its BTN vs. CO. And because of that this is not a bad spot to start a big multistreet bluff. Turn I do in fact like leading out here, when the board pair second card. This is a card, which could have hit you, and the problem with check-calling is, now you only have one card left to hit, and if you do, its kind of difficult to get paid, because then you either need to lead river or check and pray, he will bet again. But checking is not terrible. He might check back and give you a free card, which his exactly, what happened. River I think, its fine to bluff here, since the chance of winning at showdown is pretty low. It really sucks, if he check back and then flip over KJ or KT, which you cant even beat. The question however is, if its more profitable to go for a small bet saying, you have top pair or better. Or for the overbet, where you are saying, you have a straight or a boat or maybe trips top kicker. With the small bet you are just trying to fold out any A high or K high, that decided to not barrel the turn. Maybe some weak pairs like A3 as well. With the overbet you are also trying to make 55-JJ and maybe even some QX fold. But the question is, if those hands make up enough of his range to justify risking 3 times more, than you would on a more standard 2/3 pot sized bet? Is he folding 3 times more often to the larger sizing? I am not convinced about that, and I also think, he is probably supposed to call you down with a hand like the one, he had, since its very near the top of his range after just calling preflop and then checking back the turn. Apart from some boats, that might check back turn as a slowplay, and maybe 65s, that rivered a straight, what can he even have here, thats better than QJ or QT? So I actually think, a good player in a mid or high stakes game would also call with QT of hearts realizing, that its an MDF defend, and that you can have a lot of bluffs. And a bad player is not folding top pair in a 5$ game, because well... its top pair, and its less than the price of a cup of coffee to see your hand. So I perfer to use a normal bet size here, which would of course still have gotten called, but you would have cut your losses. [/QUOTE]

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