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Old 12-10-2005, 10:33 AM
kuro kuro is offline
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Default Re: Who folds this river? (possibly inane content, but I do have a pol

That's hellaweaktight thinking. Your goal in this hand is to extract as much value with your set as you can. You don't do that by shutting everyone out by pushing the turn and you certainly don't do that by checking and not charging any of the draws. You can't be so concerned with implied odd that you go all-in trying to make it clearly wrong for people to chase their draws. You want players to make that call with their flush draw on the turn because you win chips the majority of the time. You also have to remember that you don't know this guy has a flush draw on the turn and you want him to call with other hands that are drawing completely dead against your set.

Villain's call on the turn is also clearly wrong because he doesn't know if your hand is strong enough that you'll call an all-in on the river. It just happens that this time you've got a hand that's unfoldable.


You call the river because 2 pair, a smaller set, an overpair, and complete bluffs may also push here.

OP played the hand appropriately and lost his stack. That's poker.
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