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Boxing Day - Make Your Play - TWO
Tikay10
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Here's # 2. Remember the e-addy - skyopen@bskyb.com or simply reply "on thread", & we'll read out the best replies.
£1 £2, 5 handed.
Villain is new to Table, & is in the BB, playing £176.25
Hero is UTG, with £200.
Pre-Flop. Hero, UTG, has Qc-Qs
Hero Raises to £6
All fold round to BB who calls the 4 quid. Obv.
Flop 6d-Jc-3c
BB checks to us, we bet £8. He quickly calls.
Turn (£29-ish in midle) 5s
So it's 6d-Jc-3c-5s
BB checks AGAIN, so we Bet £26. He calls again. Hmm.....
River (about £81 in middle now) 9c
So the Board reads 6d-Jc-3c-5s-9c
BB checks yet again.
Hero.....
Check?
Bet-Fold to a Raise?
Bet & Call any Raise?
Vote NOW please.
And comment on the play, & the Options. Especially Option B......;)
Comments
There is no point betting here unless we're going to make it a decent sized bet and, in that case, there are very few players who will call us with a hand that we are beating.
We don't know the player so it is possible that he's check-raising with a flush on the river although that would be poor play in my opinion.
I would be tempted to go for option B, bet but fold to re-raise as we could get some more value out of him.
I do it for two reasons,
1. he's just sat down so i have no info on the player(unless i've played him before)
2. there's no need to get to lairy and we can see what they are playing with, if they have the flush then they will come back over the top so why put more at risk.
Yes we may be losing out on some equity but caution may be the better part of valour in this case.
col
Im going against the majority here I'm gonna bet my hand for value. How can he check if hes got there? More often than not we have the winning hand here so I wanna bet it and get value for my hand.
I definately make a small bet - he's not gonna be scared of the flush and will call a small bet, 35 quid with a jack.... he has to call 35 to win £110....I like that bet.
Theres no way hes gonna raise unless hes beating me here. But I read him as weak.
Hes defending his blind (Obviously - stated in the question) So his range his wide.
We've raised every street. - He's on the back foot throughout.
He's played so passively, he doesnt like raising!
Im more scared of a freaky 2PAIR, than I am a flush!
DOHH
then again he could have somthing like aj/kj.. top pair nice kicker, my only concern about betting out would be even tho i think we are ahead, we would have a hard decision to make if he comes back at us!! he must have somthing to call it to the river.. therefore i check
what was the outcome??/ do we know??
I think he can call pretty wide, AJ, KJ, QJ (not many combo's, but w/e), JT, but theres no missed draws he can be turning into a bluff so his c/r range is 99% value and he's prob not going to value c/r AJ on the river...