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I recognize we are giving villain a free card, but if he has an ace....

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If he doesn't have an ace, he's hard-pressed to call the continuation bet. If he has an ace and we check behind the flop, he's leading into us on the turn, and we don't have a chance to fire our bullet there anyway.

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My post stated that we would check the flop only if we intended to bet/raise any turn card. In your scenario if the villain bets out with his ace, we will raise (say 3/4 pot), it screams AA or made hand to him. Villain is smart enough to know that most donks with AA will check a flop with an ace in it for fear of taking it down too quickly. Also, if we hit miracle cards I think we have a much better chance to stack this type of villain because our hand will be well disguised.

I'm just trying to see if anyone thinks 3rd and 4th level thinking will work in this situation; especially since we have a solid villain who is probably capable of at least 3rd level thinking. This is a theoretical discussion on what is admittedly, a non-standard play.

Anyone want to humor me?