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In this hand we river two pair, but the flush also gets in. Should we lead for value and what is our plan if we get raised?
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excellent play by villain, imo. wow.
Lol why does this guy think this raise is the nuts or nothing
The problem is this hand originates from preflop and a lack of positional awareness. Q9s is a defend against a CO open, if he open to 3BB, but when he go as big as 5BB, its a very clear fold. If we were in position, he would likely have gone for the tripple barrel, because it was a perfect scare card, and he had no showdown value. Then we make the call, and we win at showdown. Rather than this awkward situation, where we kind of have to donk bet to get value, but by doing so we open up the door for him to raise and put us in a tough spot.
call $175 to win $585 and you fold top 2? wtf
If you're gonna lead/fold top 2 to a small raise, than you should just make life easy on yourself and go for the check/call line, imo. ( Especially against someone who isnt afraid to bluff. )
The reason he folded is because he assumes all one pair hands will never raise the river and it’s hard for Villian to have bluffs because hero is repping a strong value range of mostly flushes. With the pot odds tho this just has to be a call because of the spazz factor and you never know what your opponent might be thinking. If the villian used larger sizing I like a fold in this spot assuming he’s hardly ever bluffing.
It did look like the nut flush so nice play by villain. Question for Bart or for hero – neither of you mentioned the idea of Betting larger on the river to avoid this outcome. Is that worth consideration? Granted that in this spot you wouldn’t have gotten value but I feel like Bart often advocates for betting bigger in order to “comfortably” fold to raises.
River lead makes no sense… you block Qx so villain much more likely to Have a draw or overpair.. you’re targeting too narrow of a range to bet and expect to be called. Also when you lead river it looks super bluffy and / or like a weak middling type hand that is throwing out a blocker. It’s almost asking to be raised… and it’s really not the hand you want to be leveling opponent into raising. I think it’s a hard call to make better off just check calling river and not worrying about losing thin value. Leading river here w Acx bluffs and made flushes and not much else makes sense.
Q9 is the worst hand with which we x/c flop, x/c turn, and lead river.
Why is it wrong to fold to a small river raise, that looks like milking value?
I would call here 100% of the time if I either know nothing about my opponent or I know it is possible for him to be bluffing. I refuse to give people good prices on their bluffs and it has served me well in cash and even better in tournaments to this point.