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Old 03-05-2005, 01:42 PM
Deorum Deorum is offline
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Default Re: FPS or well played?

There seem to be a couple of things on which people so far
have agreed, but I would like to clear some things up.

First, this player is not betting the turn with overcards,
so checkraising him if he holds something like AK is out.
Even if he would bet them, check calling makes more sense in
this situation as he certainly will not call a checkraise
with them. He would even have a hard time calling a
checkraise with an overpair. He might call a bet with
overcards, though.

Second, it has been suggested that I bet the river here as
AK might look me up, hoping for a busted flush draw. But
I very much doubt that this player would call me here with
AK. He might, I will not say that it would be impossible.
But a lot of people call the turn with AK, with the combined
hope that, on the river, either the bettor misses a draw and
checks, or that he catches an A or K and that it is good
enough to win. When neither of these two things happens,
he often folds to a river bet. And since this player will
most likely bet 100% of the hands with which he will call a
bet, and I only lose to one of them (QQ), I felt that a
checkraise was in order. I lose nothing by checking instead
of betting when he has a hand with which he would not have
called a bet anyway.

Finally, it has also been said that I should checkraise the
turn. But, as I have already mentioned, he either checks
behind, or folds to a checkraise a high percentage of the
times that I do this.

It is certainly possible that I grossly misplayed this hand.
You guys just have not yet convinced me of it. Please keep
trying, but also keep in mind the things I have mentioned
above while doing so.

Edit: I also wanted to mention that many people seem to be
basing an argument on betting the river so that AK does not
get a free showdown, but I would like to point out that AK
only accounts for a fraction of the hands he could hold
here.
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