Big Stacked AKs

[Sherman]

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if you wait for the turn you might as well turn your hand face up

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Really? I still think people are getting caught up in the fact that villain does not know what you have. I cannot see how checking the turn makes our hand "face up".

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i also think that betting protects your table image much better than checking behind with it.

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OP said nothing about table image.

Edit: To be quite honsest, the best argument I have heard for not checking the turn is Adam's and it consists of "checking the turn for value is straight silly."

Lastly, what this hand really comes down to (like many hands) is how bad/good is villain?

If villain is good, he never has a pocket pair here and we should just check behind.

If villain is bad, he is more likely to have a pocket pair, but he still has some unpaired cards in his hand some of the time. If he is bad enough to fold a pocket pair on this flop however, I agree that betting the flop is best.

If he is good, he won't fold a PP on the flop. If he is bad, he will, and we should be bet.