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Because the hand would be a lot less interesting otherwise.

I have only been sitting with this villain for two orbits but during that time he has been opening a LOT of hands PF. I do not yet have a read on his post flop play.

Poker Stars $2/$4 Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 428434
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Pre Flop: (1.5 SB) Hero is CO with Q K
UTG raises, 1 fold, Hero 3-bets, 3 folds, UTG calls

Flop: (7.5 SB) Q 2 3 (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets, UTG calls

Turn: (4.75 BB) A (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero...

Defensive check here is fine, it's hard for him to know if you're folding 88 to a river bet (and thus he may bluff) or calling with QJs, JJ, etc.

There are some players I'd vbet-fold and vbet-calldown vs., but I think this is a good spot to defensively check against most given that your range is wider than it looks. It's also an ok spot to checkback and fold with hands like 66.

Rob

Vs a guy that might be LAGgy, I check back this turn and call any river. I find that this type of player peels a ton of flops, so Ax is definitely in his range, but so are lots of weak peels that are drawing thin/dead. By checking we can induce bluffs from the garbage that he would have folded to a turn bet and we save bets vs Ax.

With this line however, we don't charge any draws he picked up (JT, KJ, KT) or didn't c/r the flop with (X X, 65/54 if he's really loose), as well as any PP he was planning on showing down, so I'm not sure that this is best. I just hate betting and having to either fold or put in 3 bets to show down without more of a read.

This is a spot I play by ear . I like a check a lot more if 3 -> 8. Given all the worse hands that probably will call (I assume he calls 5x-2x, FD, Qx that was waiting for the turn, PP, broadways), Im laning towards a valuebet in this case. I wuld bet again on a safe river.