Re: $11: How do you play this on the river?
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned lead out for about 80, which is what I would have done.
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This is not good. What you have here is a great bluff-buster hand, not a real hand. 6 people saw the flop, and TT-88 are also limping hands that would have been afraid of a J-J-x flop. If you lead and get raised, now what do you do?
Quite conceivably, everyone has nothing and you have the best hand. The board is pretty scary. If you lead for any significant amount, there's a decent chance you'll scare away even the dude with Jacks full of fours or deuces, whereas if the pot is checked to him, he might try to value-bet it (which you happily call). Or, the dude with Jacks full of fours or deuces will decide he's got the greek nuts and overplay it, forcing you to call a huge raise. You want neither of these situations. Check and call for value.
--Zen
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