What did they have? (low content)

[sweetjazz]

It's a 7-handed home game, for very low stakes. Unfortunately I don't remember the exact betting before the turn, but I think it was just limped around before the flop and played pretty passively on the flop.

The flop was 3 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 9 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] Q [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]. Turn comes 9 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]. It quickly gets heads up between two pretty aggressive players. They go for 7 or 8 bets here.

River comes the 7 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. Out of position checks, in position bets, out of position calls.

Results in white:
<font color="white">Out of position has 97o for the rivered full house.
In position has T9o.</font>

WTF?

[deacsoft]

If I was going to play one of those hands (which I wouldn't unless the circumstances were right) I would probably play very similar to how they played it. My question though is this... Do you not play with a cap at all or do you let them go as much as they want when it is heads up?

[sweetjazz]

There's no limit to the betting when it's heads up. (Capped after 4 bets in a round otherwise.) But after the third or fourth reraise, you know where the other 9 is (unless the other has 33 or QQ). And neither kicker was very good -- there was a good chance both of them were drawing to split the pot or had lost by that point. And then the 97 didn't even realize the river 7 had filled him up, which is why he didn't bet the river (he explained afterwards).

The game is as if kickers didn't exist at all. Not that I am complaining at all. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[bmedwar]

Normally the rule is that the betting round has to start with only two players. So the cap would have effect on the turn, but not the river.

[Nottom]

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Normally the rule is that the betting round has to start with only two players.

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I've never seen this restriction on the "heads-up no cap" rule. It usually just has to be heads up when the 4th bet goes in (or maybe when the 5th bet can be put in).

[thrillhouse]

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WTF?

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I think you answered your own question:
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It's a 7-handed home game, for very low stakes.

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