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Villain is a feisty 26/17/14 over a couple hundred hands. No specific post flop reads.

EDIT: WTSD 26%

Merge - $0.25/$0.50 (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: $21.79
BTN: $12.69
Hero (SB): $17.95
BB: $26.56
UTG: $24.49
MP: $3.78

Hero posts SB $0.10, BB posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.35) Hero has T J

fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to $0.50, BB raises to $0.75, Hero calls $0.25

Flop: ($1.50, 2 players) 6 7 9
Hero checks, BB bets $0.25, Hero calls $0.25

Turn: ($2.00, 2 players) K
Hero checks, BB bets $0.50, Hero raises to $1.00

Initially I was think I'm going to have to also barrel the river in attempt to get a better Q high or Ace high to fold. Looking back I'm not sure I get a fold from Ace high enough in the middle of a blind battle.

i like it fine, and probably am betting every river. any wtsd stat on villain? you would bet your value hands on most rivers so you need to be betting your bluffs too. if you just semibluff and then give up when you don't get there your opponents will be able to play against you very easily. remember the pot is decent sized and sometimes you don't know exactly what in his range you are targeting but you know there's enough of it. example: on river ace you're now targeting his small pairs. on other rivers you're targetting choppy type hands or ace high. etc

i like it fine, and probably am betting every river. any wtsd stat on villain?

Yes, 26%. But I suppose that's slightly different in 3! pots and blind battles?

Thanks for the response.

Agree with BBB, this is well played and fire all rivers

i like it fine, and probably am betting every river. any wtsd stat on villain? you would bet your value hands on most rivers so you need to be betting your bluffs too. if you just semibluff and then give up when you don't get there your opponents will be able to play against you very easily. remember the pot is decent sized and sometimes you don't know exactly what in his range you are targeting but you know there's enough of it. example: on river ace you're now targeting his small pairs. on other rivers you're targetting choppy type hands or ace high. etc

BBB, is it bad etiquette to double post these hands both on 2+2 and here? (I see you posted in both. I didn't expect the above analysis in both). I mean, I get pretty different players and responses, so I guess not.

Anyway I'm getting comments about raising the flop versus raising the turn over there. Not quite sure how to address it other than I'd wait to raise the turn with value hands as well.

no, i don't think it's bad etiquette. i doubt a lot of people have even noticed. and besides, you're serious about working on your lhe game and you post hands in two different lhe poker forums that you know of. seems fine to me. it is probably a different set of players in each place so you'll get different responses, yes.

i don't think checkraise flop and barrel off is a bad line; i just think waiting for the turn is better/more balanced/more refined. a player containing taglike substance may call down somewhat lightly on this flop vs your checkraise since the flop is very drawheavy. he may call down less often on the turn in general and maybe this turn specifically. since i think he will 2barrel close to 100%, and waiting til the turn with value hands is nice from a balance point of view, then i think waiting til the turn in this spot is good too.

given how low the other player's WTSD is, the potsize, how much equity we have, how low we are in our range, and the fact that it's BvB, and i think not putting in a raise/barrel at some point is too weak. that's why i think checkcall checkcall unimproved is probably the third best line here. too often it will go check check and we lose to ace high or something else weak, or he might bet again with ace high or worse as a bluff and we'd fold the worst hand but it'd be a hand that may have won the pot if we'd had the initiative and been the one bluffing.