The reason you're meant to value bet constantly and not slowplay hands is because most people at microstakes are fish and far too loose passive.
Let's say someone is folding to loads of cbets but betting almost all the time when you check. Then why would we bet with our strong hands? He just folds the majority of the time, whereas when we check he's almost always going to put money into the pot.
The bit about hands like 87s (may be wrong, or not what is meant)
If the flop pot is $1 and we bet $0.60 with 45% equity when villain is calling 100% then we lose a little bit, however when we do hit our flush we can bet again and it'll be a bigger bet and we'll have loads equity (a guess) so it's still +EV to do.
It also makes us harder to play against if we are playing people who are better. You don't want to be in a spot where a decent villain is going to be like "well he'd always check these hands so he never has a flush in this situation".
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