Classic mistake illustrated to learn from

Originally Posted by Illfavor

Originally Posted by badgers

good post bjs. I think the point to learn from it is that when vbetting, you need to be greater than 50% against his CALLING range for your bet to be +EV. Being more than a 50% favourite against villain's range before you bet is not enough to make betting ok if they're folding all the hands you beat when you bet!

Even further is if the villain is likely to raise with his continuing range we need even more equity.

i dunno if this is true unless we expect villain to raise with hands worse than ours for value. If villain only raises the top of his range (which is obv normal) then we still only need 50% unless he's going to be bluff raising etc.etc. poker is complicated..