I play this situation a lot, and often find it very difficult.
A decent stats reg like this with 30/20/6 who will bluff in position /w busted draws has me OOP. I'm betting fairly hard with a hand that is unlikely to improve further.
Regs will often play hands like 6678 and JJxx exactly the same way - flat flop, raise turn, hope you have too little discipline to make the fold (or that you put enough random heavy-draw hands in their range to stack off).
So I think a lot about my line here... I wonder if it's better to pump turn for pot, and refuse to fold if I get RR'd or whether that just puts me in a situation where I'll only get further value from the strongest elements of villain's range which draw quite well vs. my made hand and consequently value-towning myself vs. the parts of his range that have me nuked.
It helps that I have two blockers with the 1010xx, but
Maybe I should even consider check raising in this spot much more often... perhaps I could woo the weakest parts of his range to stab at me thinking I'm giving up after a C-bet, and then I can profitably shove in, getting called by the more drawy parts of his range - still getting stacked by his sets... but getting good value from his weaker holdings... hmm...
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(a flush, Ace high)
