[5NL] 44...Line check

Originally Posted by Cobra_1878

OTT the plan was to try and get to a cheap showdown by c/c reasonably sized bets. He then bets out stupidly small, I don't think I could just call as he could just bet the river pretty big assuming I was weaker than what I am. So I decided to raise...

Thoughts?

You're raising because you're worried about giving a villain who's postflop an idea to bluff you big on the river? A bluff you should be happy to call on non-paired-diamond rivers? You're thinking about the wrong things, and you're thinking about those things wrong. When you have a strong hand against weak players the dominating thought should be "value". Bet flop and turn large so we can stack a jack or at least get value from a single diamond.

Originally Posted by d0zer

You're raising because you're worried about giving a villain who's postflop an idea to bluff you big on the river? A bluff you should be happy to call on non-paired-diamond rivers? You're thinking about the wrong things, and you're thinking about those things wrong. When you have a strong hand against weak players the dominating thought should be "value". Bet flop and turn large so we can stack a jack or at least get value from a single diamond.

Yeah it's a habit I have had for a while and I can't seem to break it. I usually think along the lines of "Villain could have ATC here, in this hand for example he could have 92dd", and I absolutely hate the thought of v-towning myself.

I know it's the wrong way to think and I am trying to change it.