7-3 since the Rudy Gay trade, 4th in the East, and we just beat OKC and Dallas on the road. I am loving being a Raps fan right now! The fifteen years before this month have been pretty rough tho...

I'll definitely keep this in mind when I'm looking at material. 

I think that leading the turn with your value and bluffs is definitely a much more standard play than check raising them here and perhaps is better as a default. I think that most people should be checking that turn back w/ Ax if they checked the flop with it and that they should probably fold Ax by the river if I two barrel. However, in tourneys I find that people generally err on the side of betting the turn too often in spots like this, and calling the river too much (if i led T and R) with weak bluff catchers like Ax.

I wanted to try to capitalize on a wide turn betting range that includes v few slow played or turned monsters, especially since I thought hands like Ax might call my c/r on the turn to fold to a river bet (unless they improved to top pair or a worse straight). This would also put a lot of pressure on mid pair hands that checked back (and allow me to get in money against them with my sets).

I do agree that if we think villain checks turn w/ Ax that we should just go ahead and bet, but I think that in tourneys people bet that and other hands too often so I have a c/ring strategy here against opponents who may fit that build.