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This also assumes that V is playing every suited heart combo, which for most players is a stretch. Maybe not for Gus Hanson. Against a typical villain, AKQ all hearts is far better than say 456 all hearts because it removes a lot of the suited hands they get here with. Still, even if we give them all those heart combos, then we have to give them all the spade, club, and diamond combos too. But we’ve just said they wouldn’t check raise those, so given our range read, we’ve lost a lot of the hands we want V to have (complete air, worse two pairs, pairs and straight draws etc.). The unsuited hands are even rougher to find that get here. J-10, J-9, or 10-9 off with hearts?
So although in straight combos we rate to be ahead of any hand with at least one heart. If we can narrow that range down, I think we’re only seeing this raise with a hand like AxJh Ax10h Jx10h Jh10x and or hearts. I don’t think we’re being check raise by Kx/Qx with J/10h
I’m calling this once because I do have outs and because I may still be ahead, but this about the bottom of my calling range with this read and I’m likely folding to much further aggression on blanks.
Absent the read described, I think many villains are very capable of check raising here without a heart. And that makes the call a little more easy. Those are my two cents.
