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Old 07-08-2005, 02:04 PM
aflaba aflaba is offline
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Default Re: K-high on the river; A rare bluff from me

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check/calling even a tame board like this j-high is suicide with k-high, seeing as how he three-bet preflop. unless he's a maniac, you lose to EVERYTHING.

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What hands that beat Hero could villain have? Villain is almost always on a draw here, right? The obvious draws are AK, AQ, KQ. The only one of these that might bet the river is KQ. Therefore Hero should call a bet. Folding is bad.

As I wrote my experience is that villain could easily have other draws as well, Q9s, 89s... whatever. A 3-bet does not mean a great hand from the majority of opponents 100% of the time, or even close. I believe that hero should check-call to catch bluffs from these. Definhetly not bluff the river.

Even if the opponent could only hold AK, AQ, KQ, check-calling would still be best ( here).

I can't believe people don't agree with me here, crazy people [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] or maybe I am crazy, nah
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