Doesn't feel right....

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Aaron, I agree with your first post but totally disagree with your second unless I'm not understanding you right. Just because we get the right price to draw doesn't mean we want to put in two bets here, "not losing much money when this happens" makes it sound like we have fair share equity or close to it and if we get checkraised that's not the case.

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It's not about equity but about drawing odds. If villain were somehow able to bet 2 SB into Hero on the flop, Hero would be getting close to the right odds to draw to a 7-outer, which is close to what he has here (granted, some reverse implied odds as he may hit the wrong kicker and sometimes needs more than a pair to win). So the net result on this street, even if Hero is ALWAYS check-raised and ALWAYS has the worst hand, is only slightly -EV. Combined with all the good things a flop bet can do when Hero isn't check-raised and happens to have the best hand, this is a solid flop bet. Does that make more sense?

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Sounds good to me.