Re: river action
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2100 effective stacks. Opponent in this hand is solid, better than me shorthanded and heads-up. He's loose and capable of mixing it up, though against me he usually plays pretty ABC. Against me he likes to make a lot of small value bets and raises with big hands, since he knows that I don't call huge bets that often.
Villain is tilting a bit after losing a stack to a donkey, but he's in general quite capable of making laydowns.
4-handed. I make it 60 UTG with A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. Villain calls from BB.
Flop:
A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]
Villain checks, I bet 70, villain calls.
Turn:
Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
Villain checks, I bet 150, he makes it 350.
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I call the 350.
River is 4[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
Villain pauses and bets $200. (This is one of those "small value bets" I was talking about, he likes to milk tight players.)
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You can't raise the river unless you want to open yourself for a big raise. What did you choose and why?
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I raised to $600. I knew that he had a made hand, since the $200 makes no sense as a bluff. I decided that if he had a set he'd have wanted to get more value out of it. So I was usually best, and he'd find it hard to fold to a milking raise of my own. But just in case, I also figured that $600 left me room to get out if he popped me again. (We each would have $1000 behind after that raise.)
$600 is also the sort of raise I might make if I had AK/AJ facing a $200 bet and were feeling frisky, so he doesn't really know how powerful I am.
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