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I'm checking

With A3 I'm always checking. Without I think betting is fine.

Can you explain? I thought the A3 gives us more nutted turn barrels.

I don't want to barrel a hand like tptk, nld, nut gutter. What are you trying to accomplish? They are mostly not folding better so I guess you are trying to get them to call worse.

Feels like we can get better to fold sometimes, but cleaning up equity seems important. Getting a hand like 89 or Txxxx to fold is a good result, no?

Depends on sb , if he is sticky I'm checking.
If he folds flops that he checks as the aggressor I'm betting here 2/3 .

Is it though? Imaginary two card 89 has 4 outs to scoop and 4 outs to split. You also want someone to hit a weaker low with their weaker one pairs, you want to give free cards to dry nld etc. I don't think protection alone is even remotely a good enough reason for a bet. You can protect when lots of rivers would make it more difficult to realize equity.

check

Why didn't you pot pre? Post seems trivial

Keep training and play player dependent

If he's choking this you could 4bgi
Icm chip dynamics
Press fine edges

5handed oop with the pot already bloating I check but I can see an occasional bet with slightly better hand & position.