QJs flops OESD in blind battle

[HOWMANY]

I wouldn't raise the flop here unless I was going to cap, but I don't feel like doing that with our image. I prefer calling flop/turn and likely raising the river depending on how the villain plays.

[DING-DONG YO]

assume you call flop, raise the turn then get called.

river blank, check to you, now what?

[Entity]

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I wouldn't raise the flop here unless I was going to cap, but I don't feel like doing that with our image. I prefer calling flop/turn and likely raising the river depending on how the villain plays.

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I don't like raising the river at all. People get too defensive with pairs and when they aren't defensive your hand will be the best draw a reasonable % of the time. I think most of the time you'll be better off with a mix of call/call/fold (raise if you hit) or call/raise/bet or similar lines than call/call/raise.

Rob

[Zele]

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assume you call flop, raise the turn then get called.

river blank, check to you, now what?

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Pot is definitely big enough for a desperation bluff - plenty of his range beats us but is not definitely showing down. If we checked through and he took it with K8 I would SCKM.

[marching_on_together]

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I wouldn't raise the flop here unless I was going to cap, but I don't feel like doing that with our image. I prefer calling flop/turn and likely raising the river depending on how the villain plays.

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I don't like raising the river at all. People get too defensive with pairs and when they aren't defensive your hand will be the best draw a reasonable % of the time. I think most of the time you'll be better off with a mix of call/call/fold (raise if you hit) or call/raise/bet or similar lines than call/call/raise.

Rob

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I concur

[Hoi Polloi]

Thanks, Rob. Most helpful.