Quote Originally Posted by thenonsequitur
Quick question about hand 3, the TPTK hand with AK. It's pretty unanimous so far that the flop call was bad and I should have raised. Is there no merit in waiting for the turn to raies? My thinking was that the board wasn't particularly scary, so I wasn't very concerned about giving a cheap card. I wanted to let a weak ace or mid pocket pair go ahead and make a larger turn bet and then put in a raise there when he's a little more committed to call down with a holding weaker than mine than he would have been against a flop raise. Is this bad logic (does it make less money on average than just straightforward value-betting?).
Villain would have bet more than .25 if he himself had an A to protect his hand. You have to raise to find out what he has. If he just calls, hes most likely on a draw. Many times he will fold, and the pot is your right there. Other times he will make a big re-raise and you will have to lay down TPTK. Its a lot cheaper to find out on the flop if you are beat, rather than waiting till the turn or river when the bets get much larger.