[sirgasleak]

Like you said, it depends on a number of factors. But generally speaking your hand won’t have too much equity in these situations, nor much in the way of showdown value, so I’d typically CB and fold to aggression (unless I flopped a flush draw).

[jim]

I agree with @SirGasleak that we should be attacking paired boards like this with most of our range no matter what our holdings are, because it is hard for foes to connect with these kinds of boards. Then, if they do stick around, you will play different parts of your range differently on different runouts. Sometimes you’ll have cbet with a pocket pair, and it will fill up on the turn. Sometimes you’ll have the 86s and a 5 or 9 will come on the turn – and sometimes the turn will come a Q instead, and you will have to decide whether to try to take it away or not based on your assumptions about your opponent.

I see you are asking specifically about OOP – that does lower your cbet frequency, so the question becomes “what hands will I choose NOT to cbet OOP that i would IP?” It’s hard to say without looking at the entire range in flopzilla and seeing what the other candidates are, but i am inclined to cbet these kind of paired flops quite a bit whenever I am the preflop aggressor. Remember – betting and folding to a raise can be more profitable in the long run than checking and calling a bet, as counter-intuitive as that sounds.

[fivebyfive]

I tend to agree with the cbet this spot a lot camp, but I did look at Range Trainer Pro postflop here for some more insight. On the rainbow version of this board at 60bb Cutoff vs Big Blind, it is a true mix. We either bet small or check. On the two-tone board, it is still a mix, but does slightly favor c-betting the flush draw combos. (I’m going to try to attach some screenshots, but I’ve had trouble with those showing up sometimes).

What you will notice here is that we are checking 35-38% of our range. This is mostly comprised of Ax and Kx holdings that do not have spades and where the x connects with the 7 (which means we have a high card and a card that tends to block 7s or gives us a back door straight). When we do bet on this board, we always bet small.

Again this is all GTO, and I do like cbetting this more in practice because I think population will overfold on boards like this one when they don’t have a piece, but against better players we do want to find some checks sometimes because this is also a good board for them to attack with check raises.