$16 - TT AAA board

[DannyOcean_]

Does anyone like a check/call on this flop? We are way ahead or way behind, and nobody's drawing. I c/c this flop to induce worse hands to bet.

[jon7alt88]

the only reason i dont like check call is because what do you do on turn when he decides to fire two barrells? Then you have to take a really passive line on turn and river when u are stuck c/c with a possibly inferior hand w/o trying to get any information out of the opponent.

[DannyOcean_]

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the only reason i dont like check call is because what do you do on turn when he decides to fire two barrells? Then you have to take a really passive line on turn and river when u are stuck c/c with a possibly inferior hand w/o trying to get any information out of the opponent.

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I disagree with your line of thinking. My goal is not to 'get information', its to maximize EV. often times getting information will help us maximize EV, but not always. If i raise half my stack on the first hand with 78o, and someone pushes, i've gained a lot of information about his hand but lost EV. So any time someone justifies a play with 'it gets information', i don't necessarily buy it.

On this particular hand, i would definitely c/c the flop, and the decision to c/c on the turn or river is read dependent and bet-size dependent. I think a lot of typical villians will donk bet small here with lesser hands and then give up or donk bet small again.

[Fuxl]

It's the 2nd level i usually fold TT to a preflopraise.

[jon7alt88]

well danny normall i would agree with you, but in this situation i feel that we are deep stacked enough that this kind of board is not solely a +ev and -ev, i think that at early stages in a sng there are points where u actually have to play poker and not look at it in the +ev or -ev (obviously the information bets are used in order to maximize your ev)but but c/c you are just blindly spewing chips w/o knowing where u are which is HUGE -ev