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Message: [QUOTE="fundiver199, post: 6200930, member: 397965"] When I wrote my first reply, I had misread the hand history and thought, we got called by the limper and someone from the blinds. I see now, that we instead got cold called by BTN and someone from the blinds, and this actually matter. First of all without any other reads BTN is probably a better player, or at least we dont have any sign, he is a fish. And since he cold called, he probably have something at least reasonable. Like a decent ace, a decent broadway, a small to medium pair or a suited connector. And second in this configuration I really prefer checking the flop. If we bet, even a small bet like here, we force BTN to get rid of all his junk. Its difficult for him to liberally float us with air, because he still have the player in the blind left to act behind him. Whereas if we check, we make it look like, we missed and are ready to give up, and this open the door for him to bluff. Often in poker we want to go for value, but specifically on paired rainbow boards hands like AA or KK often play much better as a check out of position. Its such a way ahead way behind spot, where either the opponent has trips, or they have a weak hand, that we can not get 3 streets of value from anyway. Hands like KJ or AT are just going to fold, if we bet, and hands like 76s or 44 are not going to call us all the way down, if we go bet, bet, bet. So just hand him the rope to hang himself, and then basically call him all the way down especially on this runout. You still lose, if he has a 9 of course, but you keep his range much wider and win money from him, when he is bluffing. Whereas with the line, you took here, you forced him to fold all his bluffs on the flop, so when he then raise you on the turn, its almost always for value. You might say, that if he wanted to bluff, why did he not raise the flop? But there is a simple answer to that, because at that point BB was still in the hand, and if BTN flopped trips, he obviously wanted BB to stay in the hand and come along for the ride. Whereas on the turn BB was out, so now BTN could spring the trap and try to win a big pot against a hand like the one, you had. [/QUOTE]

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