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  1. hand just came up villan unknown, can i raise/fold river? wtf...

    pokerstars Game #, $300+$20 Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2009/05/02 13:17:42 ET
    Table '158090430 28' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
    Seat 1: Zolee21 (3000 in chips)
    Seat 2: fabstinho (1340 in chips)
    Seat 3: Zoutechamp (4464 in chips)
    Seat 4: colonelkosta (2950 in chips)
    Seat 5: LexLuthor85 (3010 in chips)
    Seat 6: King MicNuts (2870 in chips)
    Seat 7: ComeOnPhish (4276 in chips)
    Seat 8: witcherd (2845 in chips)
    Seat 9: iamgod1234 (2245 in chips)
    iamgod1234: posts small blind 10
    Zolee21: posts big blind 20
    *** HOLE CARDS ***
    Dealt to witcherd [Jd Ad]
    fabstinho: folds
    Zoutechamp: raises 40 to 60
    colonelkosta: folds
    LexLuthor85: folds
    King MicNuts: folds
    ComeOnPhish: folds
    witcherd: calls 60
    iamgod1234: folds
    Zolee21: folds
    *** FLOP *** [6s Ac 7d]
    Zoutechamp: bets 100
    witcherd: calls 100
    *** TURN *** [6s Ac 7d] [6d]
    Zoutechamp: checks
    witcherd: checks
    *** RIVER *** [6s Ac 7d 6d] [3d]
    Zoutechamp: bets 350
    witcherd: raises 525 to 875
    Zoutechamp: raises 3429 to 4304 and is all-in
    witcherd: ?????????????

    are there enough hands that villians shoves here with that i beat to call, some weird 6, lower flush, aq, ak? he'd have to be pretty bad to shvoe 45 here on river obv... idk any help ya'll...
  2. eh i guess he can have worse flushes here alot if hes really bad he might have 45 or a dry 6. you could justify calling river since theres still a decent amnt of stuff u beat. I lean more towards calling than folding i think
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  3. 89dd, 45, 56 - 33 unlikely. Would 77 play it this way at this buy-in level? idk.
    More important question is What can you beat and why raise river? I think flatting river is the play after not raising the flop bet for info.
  4.  
    Originally Posted by trailrated View Post

    89dd, 45, 56 - 33 unlikely. Would 77 play it this way at this buy-in level? idk.
    More important question is What can you beat and why raise river? I think flatting river is the play after not raising the flop bet for info.

    Not raising this river is bad.
     
  5. i never call this b4 the flop at this level esp with the 20 minute rounds.
     
  6. I see no reason why this can't be 89dd (or worse). Villain (according to his chipstack) has been reasonably active early. Assuming he's laggy, you are probably ahead of his push range on the river.
  7.  
    Originally Posted by Dead Money Dom View Post

    i never call this b4 the flop at this level esp with the 20 minute rounds.

    uhhhh why?
  8.  
    Originally Posted by Dead Money Dom View Post


    i never call this b4 the flop at this level esp with the 20 minute rounds.

    ??? even on the button
  9.  
    Originally Posted by trailrated View Post

    89dd, 45, 56 - 33 unlikely. Would 77 play it this way at this buy-in level? idk.
    More important question is What can you beat and why raise river? I think flatting river is the play after not raising the flop bet for info.

    raising the flop is terrible, flatting river is terrible
    This is really gross, not sure what I would do here, but I guess fold, since him shoving the river here without a boat is pretty bad
  10. Raising the river in this spot when you are this deep and early in the tourney on a paired board is optimal? Do you raise river and call the shove? Fuck I am lost and there's no wonder I stick to cash... I just suck at MTT's if this is a +ev play....
  11.  
    Originally Posted by gray31 View Post

     
    Originally Posted by trailrated View Post

    89dd, 45, 56 - 33 unlikely. Would 77 play it this way at this buy-in level? idk.
    More important question is What can you beat and why raise river? I think flatting river is the play after not raising the flop bet for info.

    raising the flop is terrible, flatting river is terrible
    This is really gross, not sure what I would do here, but I guess fold, since him shoving the river here without a boat is pretty bad

    so if flatting the river is terrible how is raise folding the better play? wtf are you raising for on the river if your folding to a shove?
  12. i snap call vs. random - he's raising pre and lots of randoms wont even raise the small pairs pre, they'll just limp.
  13.  
    Originally Posted by trailrated View Post

    Raising the river in this spot when you are this deep and early in the tourney on a paired board is optimal? Do you raise river and call the shove? Fuck I am lost and there's no wonder I stick to cash... I just suck at MTT's if this is a +ev play....

    lol how would it not be +ev to raise the river??? do you think he is never flatting your river raise and only shoving or folding? there are tons of hands he calls a raise on the river, and very few hands that he would shove imo. so, i think you can raise/fold here, but i also dont think raise/calling is terrible if he has shown to be kinda clownish...
  14. too many hands i get value from on river to not be raising, and foldng pre with these implied odds to stack a big pair or w/e is just out of the ? imo. raise/foldng is plausible.. i just dont know.. i'll give results in a little just want some more input
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  15. without history, i dont see how the villian ever has anything besides fullhouse.
     
  16. u might be better off making it a lil bigger on the riv and then folding to shoves. Just always have a plan b4 u raise tho
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  17. i did, it was to snap a shove, as i did... but doesnt mean it was right.. wanted some input obv
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  18. lol i cheated and i'm fairly certain u just got lol'd here.
  19.  
    Originally Posted by ronkend View Post

    lol i cheated and i'm fairly certain u just got lol'd here.

    huh?
    Thread Starter
  20.  
    Originally Posted by witcher1984 View Post

     
    Originally Posted by ronkend View Post

    lol i cheated and i'm fairly certain u just got lol'd here.

    huh?

    dont post hand # and tourney id #
  21. results?
  22. technically he should have a boat, but the only boat i can possibly see him having is w/ 33. he should continue w/ his flop bet if had 66 AA 77 and 66 is just a remote possibility. he probably shows up here w/ 89dd, or some other high diamonds. that line would make more sense w/ those hands.
  23.  
    Originally Posted by benvo123 View Post

     
    Originally Posted by Dead Money Dom View Post

    i never call this b4 the flop at this level esp with the 20 minute rounds.

    uhhhh why?

    because aj doesnt do to well against utg raisers that i have no reads on.
     
  24. Calling preflop is not just fine, is the only play. You are 142 BB's deep, you have position, and your hand is more than enough to see a flop.

    Flat the c/bet is good, since a re-raise would gain you 0 extra value if you have the best hand. If you are beat you want to lose the minimum, if you are ahead you want to allow villain to make another bet.

    I really like your check behind on the turn, for the same reasons I like the flat call on the flop. To this point you did what many people don't know how to do: Using your position you kept the pot under control....

    But you betrayed your good judgment on the river. Re raise with the nut flush is not bad (although flatting is fine, unlike some people says. To me villain's line looks super strong, trying to keep you in the hand at all costs), you are raising for value, hopping to get called by AQ-AK, but you can not call the shove; there is no chance villain is getting there with nothing but AA-66-77. That doesn't mean you are bluffing, you are trying to gain some extra value from 2 hands you beat, and folding to any further betting because you can't win a showdown if he shoves.

    Hope this makes sense, it does it in my mind, but I still have trouble translating my thoughts to English.
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  25. Gross spot...77 66 33 or 76. small chance of AA. He could also very well have a kqdd hand or other random diamonds. Im prlly payin him off on river, cuz i dont know anything about him. I like raising the river tbh, i think you beat more hands that bet river than beat u.
  26.  
    Originally Posted by Dead Money Dom View Post

     
    Originally Posted by benvo123 View Post

     
    Originally Posted by Dead Money Dom View Post

    i never call this b4 the flop at this level esp with the 20 minute rounds.

    uhhhh why?

    because aj doesnt do to well against utg raisers that i have no reads on.

    he is utg +1 and you have the button and AJ sooted...you would have to be really insecue with your postflop play to fold this...
  27. i fucked up the quote and double quoted so i deleted, but benvo what do you do if he bets 350 on a nondiamond turn?
     
  28. Flatting pre is fine, turn looks okay although I don't hate betting. River is a pretty clear fold without any sick history and reads.
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  29. pretty sure you can't fold the river. he easily could have KQdd or even some worse diamonds i guess

    obv he can have AA, 77 or 66, even 33...but those are kind of gross. and i think that you also have to account for the fact that he sometimes just spazzes with AK or osmething like that or a random 6.

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  30. Looks like your beat Witcher, mans gotta have A6 there imo!!!!!

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