Jackvance, maybe I am just misunderstanding poker strategy. I thought you only want to value bet (or raise for value in this case) when you are ahead to the point that you are still ahead of villain's calling range. In this case, hero can instead call the flop and still have the turn and river to get money in without having to over-narrow villain's range by raising the flop. (If hero calls the flop bet, the pot becomes $14.05, which makes it very easy to get all the money in by the river.) I mean, if hero's flop raise already narrows the villain's range to something like JJ+, AdKd, what is hero going to do on the turn or river? I actually ask this in seriousness. I'm not trying to be combative. I honestly don't raise very many flops (I play at 10NL). When I do, it is usually either two-pair+ (or whatever it takes to be clearly ahead of villain's calling range) or a strong draw semi-bluff. So if calling instead of raising hands like this is a leak in my game, I want to try to understand why my reasoning is weak.
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