Re: 3/5NL Live: River Trips Faces Big Overbet
Online I usually just instacall. Seems to me like well over 50% of the time he is bluffing the river scare card especially since you have basically shown no hand so far. If you only call his bet with trip queens or better, his bet will be profitable since you so rarely will have trips or better.
Your action so far has been so weak that he should have absolutely no expectation of getting a call here. So he probably wants a fold. So I call. But live, you can often get much more info like did he look at the scary river card before deciding to make this bet or was this obviously already his intention on the turn? In any case, his line makes no sense for a big hand. Why would he check the turn again after you checked behind on the flop? If he thinks the queen is likely to have hit you, then he should lead into you on the turn so that you can raise.
I call barring a rock solid read that he is very strong.
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