720...river play

[PokerBob]

first hand at table

Party Poker 3/6 Hold'em (10 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 2/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 7/images/graemlins/club.gif. CO posts a blind of $3.
<font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, MP1 calls, MP2 calls, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, CO (poster) checks, Button calls, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Hero checks.

Flop: (5.33 SB) 4/images/graemlins/club.gif, J/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 7/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="#0000FF">(5 players)</font>
Hero checks, MP1 checks, MP2 checks, CO checks, Button checks.

Turn: (2.66 BB) 2/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="#0000FF">(5 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, MP1 calls, MP2 folds, CO calls, Button calls.

River: (6.66 BB) 9/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP1 raises</font>, CO folds, Button folds, Hero ??????

[Bigdaddydvo]

call

[mr pink]

i find it hard to believe you're good here.

it's hard to put him on anything but a flush. i just don't think a player is going to bluff raise into 3 opponents on the river that often. i'd call if it was heads up, but here i think you're beat pretty much always.

[LoaferGee12]

Fold. Can't see any hands you beat.

[jason_t]

I fold. I don't think that you're good here 15% of the time.

[Harv72b]

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first hand at table

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Call.

I agree completely with most of the above responses--you're almost certainly beat on this river, and your two pair aren't good nearly enough to make this a +EV call. But I think that betting out the river and folding to a raise, especially when it comes down to HU, is a dangerous precedent to set on your first hand at a table. And at your typical 3/6 table, there are at least a couple players at the table who will notice.

If I'm planning on staying longer than a few orbits, I'll eat the extra BB rather than open myself up to river bluffs later. Maybe it's giving too much credit to my opponents &amp; maybe it's even paranoid, but I just have to think that 1 BB is worth spending if it'll make an aggressive opponent think twice about bluffraising a river that I can't call in the future.

[Fat Nicky]

I'd fold here. I can't see a hand that you beat raising. Also, being that it is your first hand at the table, I wouldn't worry about image too much, I don't think the call is worth it considering that most players aren't paying attention, and you could also find a better spot to call a river raise where there is a better chance of you still being ahead.