Quote Originally Posted by Marshall28
hand 1 ... its too good of a board for him to make a move on and you have decent equity as well as a solid image, i think those two things working together are enough to make a committing raise and get it all in if he wants to play.
I'd feel much better getting it in if the board was KQ7 since there are a lot more TP/MP hands in his range. If he's a solid reg then he's probably not going to build a pot OOP with TPTK on a board where we have shown aggression. Sure this is KQ a lot, but I think his range is so skewed towards nut hands that getting it in is surely a bad play.

Quote Originally Posted by Marshall28
yeah, you obv won't be ahead when it does go in, but u accomplish a couple of things by doing this ... a) you put a lot of pressure on him. b)you make it less likely for him to make a move in this spot again in the future. and c) if your hand gets shown down, it's more liekly you get paid off by a weaker hand next time you have tpgk on this board.
I don't really like the idea of sticking my stack in for metagame reasons. I could see this as a much more viable option if we've seen him being tricky/we have history. A c/r is still a c/r, and we don't have any basis for saying its weak this early.

Quote Originally Posted by Marshall28
i just really dont like the idea of betting the flop in order to fold to a raise, id prefer to check it behind if i wasnt going to go with the hand if raised.

2nd hand if u dont c-bet u are pretty much giving up. it's ok to do, but i think u get a fold on an ace high board often enough that id like to be betting w/ little to no SD value.
Isn't that the point of cbets? Bet on dry flops and if you get action then slow down. You can't win em all.

And even you said on the 2nd hand..if you dont cbet you give it up. Yea it's less drawy, but our board isn't that much better. And plus when they do have a draw we get boned.

sorry if that was really shitty im stoned.