theres a few 100bb taggy type thoughts in the thread imho..
yeah u can argue that the 3bet pre sizing is to small, which is why i prefer to cbet pot"ish on dry"ish flops if using this strategy, we are so polarised [as eff stacks get deeper our cbetting range will naturally become more polarised] and at this level of play i"d expect villains to still peel a fair bit of crap..
David , u say u wanted to get value now that u had flopped top 2pair, tbh thats hand versus range thinking and tbf its ok to think like that at low levels BUT if say there are some decent players at the table or u take a shot in the future at higher stakes then u have to get to the stage where u are thinking range versus range...
what i mean with the polarised thingy is that on the flop we are no longer bet calling with hands that we might stack off with.. and if u are correctly opening your game up in deep eff situations and your 3bet frequency is higher then u have to think the long term with your range, its up to u on how u want to construct your cbet strategy on various flop textures and which ones u check back etc...
back to the polarised theory - as a rule of thumb when your ratio of bluffs to value in your range is wide then its best to bet bigger, when your ratio of bluffs to value is super narrow then bets should be smaller...
for instance in this spot, villain x/c"s flop and turn then leads out for way to much imho, its that sort of texture where u"d expect his bluffs to be near non existent, and to a std thinking half decent hand reader they will fold just about everything barring a ten, so villain should of bet smaller shouldn"t he? then the odd times he does bluff those will be cheaper and when betting for value [smaller sizing] he will still get u to call a fair chunk of your range.. [i hope that makes sense]
so from what u infer about him and that he"s supposed to be decent, if he can hand read your perceived range then on the turn he may well of decided to bluff at this point on spade rivers and/or decided to also rep the str8 draw.. because his sizing on the river sucks [unless of course he thinks ur a total idiot and cant fold a set no matter what
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