NLHTP#44 Concepts&Weapons: 51-52

[wallenborn]

Concept #51: In tournaments, other things being relatively equal, prefer small river value bets that will often be called to large river value bets that will seldom be called. Put another way, if a smaller bet has a bit less EV, it is still right to make it in most tournament situations.

Concept #52: The play of check-raising to knock people out, an important tool in limit, should rarely be used in no-limit.

[wallenborn]

These are kinda yeah, whatever, i posted them more for completeness reasons.

[LearningCurve]

Wallenborn,

Thanks for chugging away at with these. I know it's a good deal of work and you're doing a great job keeping it going!

[jimmytrick]

#51 Does this ever ever happen in online play? Did the writer ever play the Sunday Million?

#52 I hold KTo oop with a KJT, two flushed flop against two opponents, can I check raise please?

[wallenborn]

#51: Just because few people do this doesn't make it wrong. In tourneys, cEV != $EV, so you want to win a steady stream of small pots rather than going for the big kill every once in a while, even if the cEV is bigger with the big bet. But of course, in this forum not many care much about tournament strategy.

[wallenborn]

#52: You don't want to checkraise this. You check, next guy with 44 checks behind, A5s flush draw checks, turn completes the flush, now what?

The reason for #52 is there are not many instances where a checkraise does something a plain bet couldn't do better.