I think you can keep yourself out of spots like this by c-betting polarized. This way you can always either comfortably fold or call if being checkraised. By c-betting with medium strength showdownvalue you open yourself up for getting pushed of your hand. That's just one strategy you can play, but in this spot it would have been the right one imo.
When you already are in this spot on the turn, I'd obviously follow through with your plan of calling a shove, as it can very well be a bluff on a board like this, but primarily because otherwise you'd just be burning money by calling the flop, just to fold on the turn. I would'nt shove or fold on the flop tho, as villain then would just fold bluffs like backdoor club draws and just call with sets, top pairs etc.
Sept. 21, 2016 | 9:11 a.m.
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I think you can keep yourself out of spots like this by c-betting polarized. This way you can always either comfortably fold or call if being checkraised. By c-betting with medium strength showdownvalue you open yourself up for getting pushed of your hand. That's just one strategy you can play, but in this spot it would have been the right one imo.
When you already are in this spot on the turn, I'd obviously follow through with your plan of calling a shove, as it can very well be a bluff on a board like this, but primarily because otherwise you'd just be burning money by calling the flop, just to fold on the turn. I would'nt shove or fold on the flop tho, as villain then would just fold bluffs like backdoor club draws and just call with sets, top pairs etc.
Sept. 21, 2016 | 9:11 a.m.