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Those who are advocating a flop bet...can you expand on your reasoning why?


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i think checking the flop is fine, but there are many reaons to bet it and i think betting > checking here:

protecting your equity; you don't know what villains bluffing frequencies are.

you have a good hand, definitely ahead of his calling range on this flop. you want to get vaue from these in case scare cards hit.


this is a wet board plenty of draws, so value from those. (kind of the same as above, but want to emphasise that the fact that this board is wet means we should be more inclined to bet).



Advantages to checking: get value from bluffs (although that well could be a downside as we cant really call turn w/o a read)

keep the pot reasonable with our marginal hand.

makes us look weaker so we are more likely to get value out of the very marignal hands in villains range.