Re: Too Perfect Flop -- What line do you take?
Yes. My point is that if this is a flop he could have hit in a lot of ways, some of them kind of weak, but hit none the less. You want him to think JJ/AT/KQ are good pretty often against your pottish bet, and that AJ, AK are occasionaly ahead, have all their outs live, and that you'll check the turn through pretty often. You want him to checkraise AQ, not be cautious with it. if you've established a pattern of betting aggressively in position as the preflop aggressor and a pattern of being the preflop aggressor with more than big pairs and AK, you'll be able to bet medium-big here instead of small. (I realize this isn't easy to have established early in the tournament, but the philosophy remains).
As an aside, I tend to bet 2/3-3/4 pot rather than full b/c I think it gives more flexibility for later streets with stacks as shallow as they are online, which i want because I'm making that bet with a variety of hands on the flop with very different turn and river plans.
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