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Poker Video: No Limit Hold'Em by inavacuum (Micro/Small Stakes)

In 48:30 min mark with K9s in 3-bet pot. How would you play ace turn if you had hand like JJ-KK? Are you betting or check-calling?

Villian doesn't show up with Ax that often, just AsXs and the 2pair combos, which I assume would only be ATs and much less often A9s (if villain is a fish we can add in A2s but I guess we wouldn't have 3bet OOP in that scenario), which means it's pretty safe to check and let villain bet his draws and any floats he may have in his range. Not folding on brick rivers.

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Do you have that many Ax here on the turn, cbetting this flop? It doesn't necessarily matter in this spot vs this player but seems like your range is really bluff heavy (semibluffs mostly I guess?)

Well, we can have exactly as many as we can have, which is quite lot if you factor in all AA/AT/AsXs, but as you say if that doesn't matter than it's not worth worrying about in the first place. Assuming we were betting the flop for value with a non Ax hand I don't hate continuing on the turn, it's not like he can have Ax any more often and he's not shoving As. Lets assume we want to be concerned with balance, then betting the turn is a must when only betting Ax or better+draws would be a disaster. I also really don't mind betting the flop with Ax worse than the ones I mentioned above in the first place, if villain is the type to recognise that this flop smashes his range and that he should bluff raise tons, as well as actually raising his value hands and draws then we can check Ax, but if villain is only raising his good draws and 2 pair+ then we're in great shape to win the hand on some street when he only calls.

Would you bet Tx, JJ, QQ, KK, Ax on the turn against a fairly unknown player? And what's your plan on the river if he calls the turn?

Also did you mean that you'd be barreling Ax vs the villain you describe in the last sentence on blank turns/rivers?

I would bet all of those hands and check the river, I don't expect an unknown NL50 player to get to the river and then decide to turn a worse hand into a bluff. The downside is we miss out on a successful bluff sometimes, but we'll be making that bluff every time we have worse hands and still winning a good % when have a hand that doesn't turn itself into a bluff when villain checks back.

I would barrel Ax, yes. I expect worse hands to call again on the turn and I would like to be able to bluff in that spot.