Re: The big Fossilman hand of yesterday
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IMO, the only really bad thing that Greg's opponent did was make that size turn raise. If he's going to call Greg's re-raise, he's better off pushing there. In fact, he may well move Greg off of KK with a push there, depending on Greg's read. The guy made an incorrect read based on Greg's flop bet that Greg was weak. Had Greg actually had something weaker and had folded on the turn, would there be this uproar about this hand? I doubt it.
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The question is, though, how many turn cards is he planning to make a move at? If the only point of the flop call is to allow him to semibluff when he gets a heart draw, then it doesn't seem like he gets enough bang for his buck. He needs to bluff big at significantly more turn cards than that, which is a dangerous proposition with Q high and no draw.
There's nothing wrong with acting based on a read that the other guy is weak, but ideally you don't want to bet all your chips on your read being correct (particularly when he never had to get involved here at all). In the real world, I tend to think his flop call was one of those muddled "maybe I'll improve or maybe I'll be able to bluff the turn or who knows, but I don't want to decide yet so I just call." Maybe I'm not giving him enough credit.
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