Do you check the river?

callmedonnie · #1 03-29-2005, 04:31 PM

I know I am going to get [censored] for playing this hand but I am chip leader, and people are playing real tight. I fold to a reraise obviously, but I raised rather than limping for the reason that I could show the strength, force people out, and hopefully scare away a reraise. That said, check it out.

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t30 (9 handed) converter

BB (t700)
UTG (t905)
Hero (t1600)
MP1 (t670)
MP2 (t1180)
MP3 (t875)
CO (t375)
Button (t1570)
SB (t125)

Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
1 fold, Hero raises to t75, 4 folds, Button calls t75, 2 folds.

Flop: (t195) 5[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (2 players)
Hero bets t200, Button calls t200.

Turn: (t595) 6[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (2 players)
Hero bets t500, Button calls t500.

River: (t1595) J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (2 players)
Hero checks, Button checks.

Final Pot: t1595

The only two hands this guy had played he had a hand, hence his chips. I was pretty annoyed that the one player that called had a stack. I still thought I may have had the best hand so I tried to take it down, but two smooth calls scared me.

Raiser · #2 03-29-2005, 04:35 PM

Fold preflop.

As for the river, I like checking. The river brought a lot of missed draws, so this seems like a good spot to induce a bluff. I don't see you getting called by a worse hand if you bet though, so I like checking.

TheUsher · #3 03-29-2005, 04:51 PM

Try and keep the pot smaller with those type of weak hands in L:2. It's just not worth it. Smaller bet flop/turn would have been better.

P.S. Plus the fact of being the chip leader creating a big pot against the (barely) #2 stack is a bad bad bad idea with this hand.