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 Originally Posted by madurskim
Thinking like this is very, very wrong. This may be right in some situations in tournaments, never in cash games.
You want draws to call you. You want to bet as much as you think they will call.
You should raise the flop more to properly deny drawing odds, and get value from drawing hands and pairs / two pairs hands. A 3/4 to full pot sized raise seems about right here. As played, call the turn because he makes the mistake of offering you correct odds to boat up. Don't raise, because you are behind his range (less than 50% equity) and you would have to fold to a reraise and dump your decent equity in the process. Fold river.
Also reraising preflop seems bad, since you would have to fold to a 5 bet. You would mostly fold worse hands and they would continue with better. Calling is fine if UTG is not going to 4b a large % of the time (unlikely I would think, given that he minraised). The odds are very good for set mining here, and you have position, so call.
Finally, go through the process of putting your opponents on proper street by street ranges and examine your equity vs these ranges and calculate your pot odds.
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