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[MaxStPolish]

Because you 're playing really deep here, it's a very good situation for hero to make a small-inducing-raise blocking bet, and if the villain falls and raises, hero should come over the top with a pot-raise.

Yeah but that only works if he actually has the nutflush, because as it happened louis called the reraise...

I think the probability that louis calls a 3-bet is less than the probability that he calls a checkraise. I have found that bet-3-betting the river looks a lot stronger and gets a lot more respect than a checkraise, maybe because it is easier to answer "yes" to the question "Would he really bet so small with the nuts?" than to the question "Would he really check the nuts here?". Also, people see river bluff-raises a lot more often than river bluff-3-bets, so it looks less like the kind of bluff they have seen so many times before. That said, bet-3-betting the river may still get called too often and be a bit spewy against many villains (that's why I said "sexy" rather than "good" , you should use caution/reads before applying the sexy) but at least I think it looks stronger and is often a better line than a checkraise.

I like this response a lot after reading through this. I think it perfectly encapsulates the dynamics of this hand and decision making therein.

[Piemaster]

I'm no expert in PLO, but I definitely agree with J7 here.