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 Originally Posted by daven
 Originally Posted by XxStacksxX
 Originally Posted by daven
you can fold here, you can call here. Depends on reads, reads, reads.
What would you do here with 55? AQ?
Why is it relevant what you would do with 55/AQ?
isn't floating partly about repping monsters? 55/AQ are monsters here, would he call those? etc.
I would call 55/AQ here. However, if I was to raise them on this flop, does that mean I should be raising 77 also? I obviously wouldn't think so. So while floating/bluffing is about repping credible hands, 77 in this spot doesn't necessarily fall into the category of hands that you want to "bluff" with (imo).
But I do have a few thoughts on this, and similar, situations. I personally would be calling the majority of my continuing range on this flop. And I don't think I would be "bluffing" all that often. So if I call this flop, my hand strength hasn't become transparent. However, if villain checks the turn (as I would think he does a decent % of the time), that's when I feel my hand becomes quite apparent. I mean I would obviously want to bet my nut hands, such as AQ, 55, etc. And I don't think betting 77 on the turn would be all that beneficial, as we likely don't get value and he probably c/calls a good portion of his made hands (TT,JJ,etc.).
So I think when villain checks the turn, my hand strength is going to be really transparent, and relatively easy to play against. As I'm not floating all that often here in a multiway pot, when I bet the turn it would be either nut hand or bluffs/semibluffs, which would be weighted more towards nut hands. And when I check this back on the turn my range is going to be weighted greatly towards marginal hands with SD value.
So what does this mean? Should we be checking back some of our stronger hands in order to make our range less transparent? Should be betting some of our more marginal hands on the turn, intending to continue the bluff on good rivers (like betting 66 with the intention of barreling good rivers so villain folds TT, JJ, maybe KK/AA)? Thoughts?
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