Play a Hand With the Masters #1 Flop

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Your best opportunity to win the hand is RIGHT NOW.

Your best opportunity to avoid losing large amounts of your stack on later streets is RIGHT NOW.

MJ in the small blind is not going to check-raise you with another player left to act, without a very strong hand, out of position.

By betting now, we find out just how strong both of our opponents are. If either of them calls or raises, we can avoid losing a larger portion of our stack on later streets. Essentially, I'm investing 1000-1200 on a continuation bet to try and win the 2K pot, but I'm also doing it to SAVE chips on later streets.

If you just check and you hit a Jack or Ace on the turn, how can you know it's any good? Especially if your opponents come out betting into you. Now you have no idea if they have a legit hand or just sense weakness. And if they did hit a monster on the flop, or hit their draw on the free turn card that checking gives them, then you might spend a LOT more than the 1,000-1,200 chips you pushed out on the flop.

You have position, you have momentum, take advantage of it.

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Why do you keep obsessing over saving chips for later streets? If the turn blanks and someone bets we are probably just going to fold. We are not in some huge danger of losing a bunch of chips later in this hand.