When I say that, I'm not necessarily meaning for an exploitative reason. It's just that Piosolver simulations suggest large 3bet sizing performs better in general.

I think that these two textures are not actually very similar, betting all of your pairs on the A32 flop, makes a bunch more sense as continuing is more difficult for the SB there and a wider % of Hero's pocker pairs will be justified valuebets which warrant protection. Betting 99 into one over-card on the A32 flop is quite a lot different to betting 99 on the AJ3 as it doesn't get any real value here or much protection.

I think its not a matter of randomizing here, but more about the specific hand qualities on those specific textures; betting all pairs on AJ3 flop doesn't accomplish as much as betting all pairs on the A32.

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Yeah, I agree with Roots comment on the difference between this board textures. Specifically if you think about the dense region of offsuit hands that will call big 3bets preflop (KQJT), our weaker pairs will have far more equity to protect on A23 than they do on AJ3.

Hey Andy, good question. My preferred starting point is to establish what hands make the most sense to check, because we can't simply assume we're going to face a bet here. Once we've done that, we can evaluate which 'checking hands' have the right blockers and roughly the right hand strength in order to make them a possible check/raise.

That mostly applies to bluffing, but with value hands, I often focus more on how badly our hand needs protection. If we're effectively nutted and also need protection, we want to charge him to see the river by overbet leading. If we have the nut flush and therefore need less protection, we might prefer to check/raise. Also worth considering what we block - nut flushes remove top pair combos, which make up a big part of villain's calling range vs overbet/overbet. That might also sway me towards check/raising to get more bluffs to put money in.

I do think small bets would work well on J43r, for the same reason they work well on A32 as you suggested. That said, I think large bets can also work well on J43r because it's so difficult for BB to make strong hands if he's folding J4o/J3o/34o pre (assumption is yes). I guess I'm kinda saying it's personal preference, because I don't think there's a big EV gap between the strategies on that type of texture.

i will ask one more question :D

Hope its not a stupid one.

In games you play usually your opponents are very good players and they don't over fold turns but in weakers games wouldn't it be better that we cbet small on these dry flops and then barrell a lot on turns because willans will defend flop very wide and wont be able to defend enough turns? That way or ev of bet small flop becomes better than big bet on flop because of the assumption thet they will call a lot of flops and then fold on a lot of turns.

That's a totally valid strategy if you have the read on your opponent, certainly not stupid.

Yeah your last sentence captures the structure I'd be after. We have too much air and a few too many hands that don't care about betting small vs checking. If we start by checking those Ax-QQ, some K-Q high, some AA, we can build a balanced betting range and try to level out the air so that our check range isn't too weak.

Yeah I wouldn't be betting a single size with all Ax and 8x, I think that's really inefficient here. There's hardly any money in the pot considering the strength of 8x, but Ax cannot bet large at all since it gets counterfeit and villain can hold 8x. Also worth noting you're forgetting Q9/J7/96 combos as bluffs and some weak bdfds if they haven't x/r flop. If QJ does bluff river it's probably a mixed strategy overbet but I think there are probably too many bluffs to get through first (and we have some showdown value).