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Message: [QUOTE="blankoblanco, post: 1091236, member: 11119"] bob, the way i look at it is that we're always playing against our opponent's range. and when you're playing a range, there will often but not always be plays that are just superior to others one example is where the villain plays his hand really really strongly all the way, but he's also prone to making big bluffs. his range is defined as either really strong hands, or bluffs, because he'd just try to get to showdown with something marginal. holding a weak top pair hand against this range, check/calling on the river is a superior play to bet/folding. it's a more "standard" line simply because it's better mathematically. if you bet/fold, he folds his bluffs -- or bluff-raises you which would be even worse. and he obviously raises you for value with his monsters. but if you check/call, you can gain $ from the times he continues his bluff. of course, check/folding could be even better than check/calling, depending on how heavily his range is weighted towards bluffs and how often he'll fire a third barrel. that's where educated guesswork and knowing the player comes in usually if you're a decent favorite and you don't think the guy is folding, it's "standard" to get the money in simply because you will rarely be able to define his range well enough to know exactly which cards hit him and which don't. however, sometimes a player will take a line where you can define their range down to a single hand, or single type of hand because they don't play any other hand that way. the more narrowly you can define their range, the more merit there is to playing creatively and prolonging the hand, in my opinion, because you'll be able to make great decisions against their range. when their range is wide, it's much more difficult to do that, and you'd rather just get all the money in that you can while you know you're a favorite against it [/QUOTE]

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