Flop Analysis
Checking is the preferred play here to protect our range on a board that connects well with a Button calling range.
While our hand has good equity as a bluff-catcher, check-raising with Ace-high on this board is overplaying our hand and wasting its showdown value.
Checking is the preferred play here to protect our range on a board that connects well with a Button calling range.
Raising here is a significant mistake; we should call to keep the Button's bluffs in and utilize our high-card strength.
Note: Check-raising Ace-high here is too aggressive. We have no draws to semi-bluff with, and we fold out the very bluffs we beat while getting called by everything better.