Bet-bet on flop and turn for protection, but fold if you get raised, which will almost never happen because people will need the nuts to raise you, which is why you should fold. On river if the spade still hasn't arrive check to induce bluffs unless you think oppo will have rivered top pair then bet for value.
Hero fires out a pot size bet to represent in his words tpnk or a draw. Both hands he's repping are vulnerable to a raise so can you tell me why his oppos will never raise without the nuts pls.
Also CF you say the bet is too big on the flop but do you think a smaller bet looks more a vb than a vulnerable tpnk bet? Making the pot bigger makes villain more tempted to raise with his own draw rather than pay a high price to chase a draw no? And we're betting out to provoke a raise are we not?
I'm not betting out to provoke a raise. There are times I'll bet to induce raises but oop with a vulnerable hand which will pretty much hate any turn card is not one of them.
I'm betting out to get value from worse hands (overpairs/fds) and to try and get the pot heads up rather than 3 handed.
Ideally my bet would be just called and we'd be heads up.
I don't mind calling a smallish raise because we can see the turn and assess from there. But when the raise is as big as in this instance the pot is just getting too big compared to our stacks for me to feel comfortable continuing.
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