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Message: [QUOTE="fundiver199, post: 7140908, member: 397965"] Preflop Standard isolation spot, although we are near the bottom of our range here. K9o I would probably just fold. Flop Check-raising as the preflop aggressor is a cool play, which most of us should use more, since it makes us more difficult to play against. However I dont think, this is the right hand to do it with. Of course we want to have a balanced range consisting of both value and bluffs, but we want to use hands as bluffs, that have more equity and playability than this one. Yes you have a backdoor flushdraw, but thats really clutching at straws. Cool hands to do this with could be A5 and A3 of diamonds. If it checks though, thats fine, because it gives us a chance to improve for free. If they both fold, thats fine, because we win the pot. And if we get action, thats also fine, because we have a ton of equity, and now we are building the pot up for potentially hitting the nuts. And then we could balance it out by also checkraising top set, since we likely dont have any other really strong hands on this board. This particular hand I would much rather just C-bet and see, what happen. If BTN fold, now at least you have position, and if BTN continue, you can pretty much be done, unless you pick up equity on the turn or improve to top pair. Turn Now you are pretty much running a no equity bluff, and this is, what happen, when you pick the wrong hand to begin with. Check and fold to cut your losses. River Check and fold. You are already long into the "throwing good money after bad" territory. This is a terrible card to bluff, because now its even less likely, you had a strong hand on the flop, since 44 and Q4s are now reduced to 3 combos rather than 6. All the draws missed, and you are never checkraising the flop with just a 4 in your hand. Now its also bad to have a diamond, since it makes it less likely, he has a busted flushdraw. Results I think, you are falling victim to the live poker boredom problem. Meaning that because the pace is so slow, you are trying to make things happen, rather than wait for the right situations and hands. Like for instance if our check-raising range on this flop is A3 and A5 of diamonds, like I suggested, then we dont have those hands very often. Maybe we can find some more hands as well, but KdTx is not one of them. [/QUOTE]

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