[Michaelson]

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Btw, check/raising the flop is bad because what do you do when you get called and you miss the turn? Check/fold? Check/call? Bet/fold? Bet/call? Everything pretty much suck. By check/calling the flop we're keeping the pot in a managable size and the betsizes reasonable compared to our hands strength. When we b/3b or c/r the flop our sd value go out the window.

Also think about what hands you're trying to get to fold by check/raising the flop. Only worse hands right? Not always do we need the initiative postflop. Imo doing anything other than check/calling the flop would be a pretty big mistake.

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In a vacuum, sure, I agree for the most part. Don't mind a CR for balance/metagame from time to time, but there are obviously pretty big downsides to it.

I was mainly just thinking about the difference between leading and check-raising in terms of who's likely to be facing tough decisions on later streets, though.