blocking bet question

[neverforgetlol]

say you are HU and you have something like AQ on an AQ9 flop with 2 clubs, and you have no clubs. you bet pot, and get 1 call. the turn is a blank, you bet about 2/3 pot again and are called again. now the river brings a third club and you still have aces up. you block for say 1/6 of the pot or whatnot. couldn't an opponent clearly see this as a blocking bet scared of a flush and bluff at you constantly? how would one combat this?

[PokerChobo]

I don't think a blocking bet of 1/6 the pot would ever work here the way you want it to, a blocking bet of 1/2 the pot would be much better. In short, yes, a good opponent with a good read could make this play and sometimes they do, but at SSNL it doesn't happen nearly as often so I don't think you need to worry toooo much about it.

[car ramrod]

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say you are HU and you have something like AQ on an AQ9 flop with 2 clubs, and you have no clubs. you bet pot, and get 1 call. the turn is a blank, you bet about 2/3 pot again and are called again. now the river brings a third club and you still have aces up. you block for say 1/6 of the pot or whatnot. couldn't an opponent clearly see this as a blocking bet scared of a flush and bluff at you constantly? how would one combat this?

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new to the term blocking bet. Is the plan to bet to get a small flush to just call and not push? Are we assuming if we check he may push either as a bluff or with it, so we don't get anywhere? I assume we are folding to a raise. thanks

[4_2_it]

Your blocking bets should be the same size (and thus indistinguishable) from your value bets. They should be used on scary boards when you have a hand that has showdown value. If you make a blocking bet and are raised, you should fold.

[BalugaWhale]

the whole idea of a blocking bet is to get value from worse hands that call and to easily identify that you're beat when a better hand raises.

You can't bet 1/6 pot because that will get raised far, far too often, and you miss out on value a lot when you're ahead.

1/2 pot is pretty standard.

[Grunch]

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couldn't an opponent clearly see this as a blocking bet scared of a flush and bluff at you constantly?

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Yes.

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how would one combat this?

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By making a bet that doesn't look like a blocking bet. If you can't do this, check-fold.

What kind of a bet doesn't look like a blocking bet? A value bet. If you would normally bet 2/3 on the river with a club flush if you played otherwise the same, then your blocking bet should be 2/3 also.