My impulse would have been to hammer the AQ. Love the concept of the value check. Hope CHARADES calms down and does well. I still owe the forum a seven stud post. I hold the record for consecutive wrapped trip losers. Made $880 last week in a 2-10 limit (HE) game. Every week we end up playing three handed, which I like fine. Cheers to the analytical CoolDuck. I am still reading all the posts. I have yet to play a game on line.
That's cool, I'm working on my seven card stud game. I think stars has the best table selection for it.
Three-handed I guess a check is ok, it's not the best board to cbet. However if I was going to make a value check I'd rather do it on the turn and save myself some money, and a cbet would likely set that up.
It's funny I typically post my exceptions than my norms. Against average players I'd c-bet this every time, but the loose aggressive big blind made me want to play this differently at the time, and the unknown player calling cold in the sb didn't make it easier.
I think in this spot I'm still going to go with my flop check, though in 95% of these situations I'd bet. Heads up against the loose/aggresive blind I'm betting this on the flop.
Personally I'd just cbet the flop. If you get checkraised you'll still often be ahead in a heads-up pot. Checking behind just gives the big blind a free card when he has a much weaker hand range, not something you want to be doing too often since he'll benefit more from this than you in the long run.
But the problem is that the pot is multi-way and there's a cold caller in the small blind. Now if he folds when I cont bet and I get check-raised, then that's a loose call down a lot of the time as well against an aggressive opponent. And that's a tough call down if he check-raises here with a draw, since he's about 40 to 50% to win the hand from the flop, assumin a flush or straight draw.
The big blind does profit when I give him a free card, but I thought I could offset that with semi-bluffs and bluffs from this player. And this player is more than willing to bluff through the river. I have about 400 to 450 hands on this guy.
I basically looked at the flop and thought it was good for a showdown. Since the big blinds range is wide I thought letting him take the lead was higher EV (Mason would be so proud that I used "EV"
) If the small blind woke up in a multi-way pot then I could release pretty easily.
