Quote Originally Posted by dev
So the lesson here is, play your hands face-up and you get action anyway?

Ok, got it... the above is the last time I slowplay a flopped straight at microstakes.
A raise on the original hand could be a number of hands. As you put it "play your hands face-up" isn't exactly an issue in the majority of spots. You should think more in terms of odds-based mistakes instead. For example, on the flop for the hand in this post, you should re-raise the flop so that flush draws, two pairs and sets have to call another bet before they see another card.

The bet-sizing should also reflect thinking in terms of odds-based mistakes -- that is, you should size your bets so that they encourage your opponents to make mistakes. When you do this correctly, you don't have to worry about things like "keeping your opponents in" or "pushing your opponents out" because it's all built in.

As far as the bet-sizing goes, you should bet the turn a bit harder in this second hand. You're giving villain 3:1 to call. If he hits his flush, it's doubtful that you could get away from putting another $8 in the pot -- but that's all he has to extract when he hits on the river to make a call on the turn correct for him. On the other hand, if you bet the turn too hard (say you make an overbet of $20), then it's too easy for him to get away from his draws (the idea is that you're not getting him to make a mistake).

A bet of around $10.50 seems about right. If you bet exactly $10.50, villain is getting about 2.2:1 pot odds, and he needs a little better than 4:1 implied odds to make his draw profitable, so he'll have to win an additional $19 from you when he hits to make the call about break even, but he only has another $10.80 behind on the river making it impossible for his call to be profitable.

Isn't that awesome? If the dude called $7, he'll be calling $10.50 most of the time, so by a small change in betting amount on the turn we go from giving our opponent a +EV option (calling is +EV for him there since we can't get away on the river) and switch it up so that he has no +EV play.