i fold my 3 pair for one bet on the river

[tyler_cracker]

Here is a hand i think i played right.

Live, typical loose-passive 2/4. Hero has 32/images/graemlins/club.gif in the BB and checks. 5 to the flop.

Flop (5 SB): J/images/graemlins/club.gif 6/images/graemlins/heart.gif 2/images/graemlins/spade.gif (5 players)

SB checks, BB checks, EP checks, reasonably aggressive MP bets, CO calls, SB folds, BB calls, EP calls.

Turn (4.5 BB): 3/images/graemlins/diamond.gif

BB checks, EP checks, MP bets, CO calls, BB raises, EP folds, MP calls, CO calls.

River (10.5 BB): 6:

BB checks, MP bets, CO folds, BB folds.


It felt weird to check/raise and then check/fold, but i decided that whatever he had, he could probably beat a pair of 3s.

(In retrospect, i suppose there are villains out there who could take this line with just overcards, but i hadn't seen this villain do anything that tricky or aggro in an hour or so of play.)

How'd i do?

[Eeegah]

You know I wrote up a huge post about how you probably don't have odds to call the flop and in the process convinced myself that you do. Ho hum.

Yeah, I fold this river. Sucks.

[crovax4444]

I likewise at first didn't like your call with bottom pair, but considering you have a backdoor flush (1.5 outs) plus 2 outs for trips and 3 for 2-pair, I'm thinking it's fine calling it.

Turn: I like the check-raise, good stuff

River: I think u did it right. Samll pot, you got counterfeited. Nicely played

Looks like you just have the odds to take one off on the flop. Everything looks good, good fold on the river, sucks.