Yukinoshita

hi, i PM'ed you, but i just wanted to post here in case. if there is still room, i'd love to join the study group. thanks :)

Hi Steve, I still don't really get how alternate lines can affect calling frequency. Why does how often we call depend on how often we check the river? Is there a correlation such as: the more/less we check, the more/less we'll have to call?

Here, you emphasize the importance of "what are we trying to accomplish?" And, as you stated, we want to call enough of his river bets such that he cannot profitably bluff the river with any two cards from his range. In the extreme example you gave where we are betting the river 99% of the time, does this very high betting frequency (and thus very low checking frequency) help accomplish our objective because it is denying him the opportunity of bluffing on the river since we are leading out first?

Lastly, just to better understand this concept, can you provide other example alternate lines we could take that would also accomplish our objective?

Thanks