PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION ONLY POTD #282 Monte Carlo Monday: Checkraising the Flop, but Lost on the Turn

A deep stacked hand from a $200k Triton Invitational and another deepstacked blunder to the eventual champion.

My philosophy in poker is that good early street fundamentals provide the foundation for improvising on later streets. It’s much easier to exploit someone who underbluffs on the river in heads-up pots (fold!) than to exploit a tight CO when you’re opening UTG. Even if you do add a couple extra preflop opens to exploit a tight CO, the additional opens ar…