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Message: [QUOTE="primrose, post: 7182311, member: 1036998"] These two questions have the same answer, which is that it's about the strength of your range rather than your individual hand. Say you have ATs on the BN, you RFI, the BB calls you, and you flop the same board. You obviously have exactly the same hand now, but in this situation, it would be a bet almost every time. The difference between both cases is that as the BN vs the BB, you have a range advantage; you have a stronger hand on average. The solver always bets more if it has the range advantage. That's why as the preflop caller, it's unusual to ever lead this board, regardless of your hand. I don't think this is as clear-cut as the first replier seems to think because I don't think that just because GTO does something, you need to do it, too. (Also because this board has two connected low cards, the preflop raiser doesn't even have a large range advantage, it's probably pretty modest.) However this particular facet of GTO play is one that I think you should also do practically. I.e., if you defend from the BB and get a Flop where the raiser has the range advantage, you should probably just check your entire range. Junk, middle pair, top pair, draw, set, nuts, doesn't matter, just check everything. This is what first replier meant when he said "there are no donkbets", it's short for "the solver would check 100% of their range here". So yeah, it's not that it's better to check-call with top pair, it's that it's better to check-call with top pair [I]if opponent has the range advantage[/I]. BTW just to clarify this point, the reason that the preflop raiser has the range advantage is mostly that they already have a range advantage before the flop (because you call super wide on the BB, but don't RFI super wide; this is also why the range advantage is more significant if the raiser was an early position vs. the BN.) This means that the raiser has the range advantage [I]most of the time. [/I]The only exceptions are if the board is actually particularly bad for a raising range. For example if the board came 754 rather than 75T, then you would probably have a small range advantage (because the RFI range is full of high cards which all missed); this would be a rare case where leading as the preflop defender is GTO-approved (though probably not with this particular hand). [/QUOTE]

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