Fold to that river bet?
 

Over the last few thousand hands I have had a fold to river bet rate over 80%. Ugh. While a lot of that is due to just running bad (getting checkraised on the turn by a passive player when you hold a strong draw and contintualy bricking the river gets very old very quickly), it has been a flaw of mine to fold to too many river bets.

To wit, three hands:

[/ QUOTE ]Hand 1 -- SB is 30/20/3, one the tighter side of LAG. Has a tendency to semi-bluff even thin draws HU and suck out hard. The CO is a dooooooonk, at 56/10/1.5 and has been known to make some insane plays on both ends of the spectrum (he's called me down with the nuts, and bluff checkraised while playing the board). Unpredictable and stupid.

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Absolute Limit Hold'em Ring - $2/$4 Stakes (6 max, 6 handed)

Preflop: Heroine is Button with J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, LP calls, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Heroine raises, Small blind calls, Big blind calls, LP calls

Flop: (7.50 SB) 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
Small blind checks, Big blind checks, LP checks, Heroine bets, Small blind raises, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, LP calls, Heroine calls

Turn: (6.75 BB) 4[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
Small blind bets, LP calls, Heroine calls

River: (9.75 BB) 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
Small blind checks, LP bets, <font color="orange">Heroine?</font>

Pot: 10.75 BBs


[/ QUOTE ]Hand 2 -- Kind of a weird villan, at 22/8/4.5. Obviously tight and not that aggro pre-flop but aggro post-flop. Might just be an anomoly due to being cold-decked.

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Absolute Limit Hold'em Ring - $2/$4 Stakes (6 max, 5 handed)

Preflop: Heroine is CO with J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Heroine raises, Button folds, Small blind folds, Big blind calls

Flop: (4.50 SB) 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Big blind checks, Heroine bets, Big blind raises, Heroine calls

Turn: (4.25 BB) A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Big blind checks, Heroine checks

River: (4.25 BB) 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Big blind bets, <font color="orange">Heroine?</font>

Pot: 5.25 BBs


[/ QUOTE ]Hand 3: Villan is an absolute unknown.

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Absolute Limit Hold'em Ring - $2/$4 Stakes (6 max, 6 handed)

SPreflop: Heroine is LP with T[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Heroine raises, CO folds, Button folds, Small blind folds, Big blind calls

Flop: (4.50 SB) 4[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Big blind checks, Heroine bets, Big blind calls

Turn: (3.25 BB) Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Big blind bets, Heroine raises, Big blind calls

River: (7.25 BB) 7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Big blind bets, <font color="orange">Heroine?</font>

Pot: 8.25 BBs

Re: Fold to that river bet?
 

I think you can make a pretty good case for folding the turn in hand 1. On the river, folding &gt;&gt; raising &gt; calling. There just aren't many times when both SB and LP have draws with no pair. To be honest, I think you can take the free card on the flop, too. With 3 bad guys you'll pick up this pot almost never. You might be reverse dominated, and no pair folds the flop, you have no BD draws (edit: no good ones, anyhow), and some pair outs make a board 3 flush -- things don't look good.

Fold the river in hand 2. Your only real option is betting the turn; but check / folding it down is fine, I think.

Call hand 3. No matter what, you should probably be taking notes on what he's running the stop &amp; go with.

-Brian

Re: Fold to that river bet?
 

if yer not folding the turn, then the river is a sure fold. What do you think he c/r you with?


edit: hand 1

Re: Fold to that river bet?
 

Hand 1: I fold the turn. I fold the river too; even if the donk is being a donk the SB was trying to protect something that beats you and probably won't let go. I see what you're getting at but I don't think we're good very often here 3-way.

Hand 2: I'd say if you want to see a showdown you'll have better fold equity if you bet-fold the turn and check behind the river. I think the pot is small enough to check behind the turn and c/f the river though.

Hand 3: I'd pay off the donkbet. What about the possibility of just calling down after the turn? There is alot of hands that you want to charge, but that turn card didn't open any obvious semi-donk-bluffing possibilities besides a genuine queen.