T9o BTN on 655r: Delayed Turn Aggression

Hero
T♦9♠
Position
BTN vs BB
Pot
Single-Raised Pot
Flop
5♥ 5♠ 6♠

Checking back a wet, paired flop with overcards lets us pressure capped ranges when broadway turns arrive.

Flop Analysis

Checking back is a reasonable mixed option, although a small stab around 20% pot is slightly preferred to deny equity against villain's overcard floats. **Ranges:** The big blind defends many suited connectors, pairs, and broadways. While they have trips and gutshots, our range holds all overpairs, allowing us to bet frequently for a small size. **Plan:** Checking back protects our checking range and lets us delay-cbet favorable overcards on later streets without committing chips on a coordinated texture. --- > **Takeaway:** On low paired textures in position, small sizing accomplishes cheap equity denial, but checking back overcards keeps pots manageable.

Turn Analysis

Bluffing the king turn is a great delayed stab that capitalizes on villain checking twice with a capped range. **Board:** The king heavily favors our preflop open range compared to the big blind's flatting range, giving us credible top-pair representation. **Sizing:** While half-pot succeeded, sizing up closer to two-thirds pot (around 3.6BB) generates more fold equity against stubborn queen-highs and floats that checked twice. --- > **Takeaway:** Target broadway turn runouts with delayed bluffs when the defender checks to you a second time.

Key Concepts

  • 3.2
  • Hero Strong Advantage
  • IP
  • Wet Board
  • LEAN TOWARD AGGRESSION