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ChicagoTroy
06-28-2004, 11:12 AM
Is there any reason not to raise the river with a full house when you know your oppenent is beat?

Friday night I watched a hand between one good and one bad player. The bad one looked like he'd been running terribly but finally caught a hand. Bets out and is called by the good player on every street, who catches a full house on the river but only calls the bad player's bet.

Is there any good reason to do this? The only one I can think of is that he didn't want the guy to leave, and if he skinned him on that hand (the loser flopped trips w/ a nut flush draw) the guy probably would have left. The winner appeared to be socially sharp when it came to making people happy to lose to him.

cpk
06-28-2004, 12:00 PM
Softplaying is ethically dangerous, but if softplaying will keep a bad player in the game when playing normally will not, of course you softplay. This definitely falls in the strategic category.