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Scare card: check vs bet
So you're in a hand with TPTK. Say you've got AhJh and the flop comes JsTc5s. You do your duty and raise the size of the pot. 2 of the 4 callers fold. Turn brings you a nightmare: Qs. How do you play it from here? What if it had been any random spade? A blank suited Q? As?
My typical answer would be to bet out again and likely fold if re-raised. If smooth called, is check/fold the right play on the river? I always feel like doing so screams weakness and I'm giving the pot up when I slow down my betting. On the otherhand, I lost out of two SnGs yesterday to people slowplaying and trapping after calling against the odds on the flop and never raising. Would it be better to check the turn, see what others do, and evaluate then? This, however, advertises weakness still, so I'd have just as much against it...
Thoughts? How would you play an identical situation if it were limit?
- Jeffrey
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