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Are you planning on adding 50bb for HU anytime soon?

Adrian,

Thanks for your quick response! Your reasoning makes sense. As a hu-player I'm used to really wide ranges, so these (marginal value hands OOP) are the spots I've the lots of trouble in MTTs.

 Hi, thanks for the vid!

22mins: middle-left: CO raises pre, button flats, Hero flats SB w/ 65s. Flop 763, button bets and Hero check-raises. You say it's a semibluff, but how can we bluff when button is never folding anything better (at least on flop). 

Could you comment on your check-raising-range there? I'd like to check-raise with really good hands (sets) and c/r-bluff with hands that have some nut outs but not that much sd-value.

 Now we obv hit the best possible card on turn, but what if the turn would have been a king? Or what if button would had 3bet us on flop? We would have given up right? If so, why do we c/r-"bluff" with such a good hand? Why aren't we check-raising with 98s (w/bdfd) and just check-call or lead with 65? we hit the flop nicely, but by c/r'ing the flop I feel like we are throwing our hand and the nice flop to garbage bin.

EDIT: I should also add that some guys reason the flop c/r on low boards like this by saying that they are afraid of facing multiple barrels. However I don't think its a great reason, bc we wanna be somewhat balanced with our c/r-range, and bc only value hands we have on low boards like this are the sets. Therefore c/r'ing bunch can't be optimal.

Did some calcs and it turned out that bet-calling/folding the most +EV in the riv (as long as we bet enough that villain wont start bluffing 1p hands). However the difference between b/f and c/c isnt too big ev-wise. Interestingly according to my calcs if villain bets large (2/3p, pot or overbet-jam) 97 is a bet-fold. Hero is indifferent between check-calling and check-folding when facing river bet bigger than half pot.

Range-wise things get way more interesting. Basicly Hero's range on river is: straight , set, twopairs, overpair, top pair, busted flushdraw and perhaps some busted gutshot draw. I think that Hero should be betting the top and the bottom of his range (straight & busted draws). However when it comes to one pair hands, two pair hands and sets I think that check-calling/folding might make sense.