Re: Should I check the turn
Okay, now I'd like to refer you to fantam's post. To digest his material on the turn you're way ahead of everything except the case 3, AA or QQ and you're tied with KK. You have no reason to believe anyone has AA-QQ since nobody got aggressive at any point so far. We've already discussed that a person with a flush draw is drawing dead and frankly whether they call or fold is immaterial. You may as well get their money now since most of the time they'll miss and fold the river. The more interesting case is someone with an ace (sometimes they'll play that at this level hoping for a split playing the threes with the board queen as a kicker), or someone with a queen or a pocket pair JJ-44, 22. They are not likely to fold and you need to extract value from those folks since they are drawing to at most three outs. You simply can't afford to be giving them free cards.
Assuming you bet the turn if they hit their two-outer or have AA/QQ/x3 so be it. Then you're going to lose money despite playing correctly and sometimes that happens. But you simply must bet that turn!
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