[Nick C]

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If you had 88/99/JJ here, how would you play it out of position?

- Jim

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I would have folded 88 and 99 prior to the river, figuring that all I beat is 77 (or 77 and 88).

I know my open-raise was sort of a semi-steal, but I'm not used to facing re-steals from TAGs with hands like KQo and T9s when I open from MP2. It's kind of infrequent, at 5/10. Maybe it happens more often at 10/20. I don't know.

Against me, the advantage of Hero's river bet is that it might finally convince me to fold JJ. (If I hadn't capped with JJ preflop, I probably would have played it the way Villain did so far.) TT-77 is 24 combos though, AK/AQ/KK just dropped from 22 combos to 17 combos, and I'd be getting about 7:1, so I don't know.

I guess part of my difficulty (as far as fully understanding the river bet goes) is that, OOP versus preflop 3-bettors, I do a lot of check-calling postflop with good hands that may or may not be beaten. Place me in Villain's shoes, and Hero is bluffing on the river.

But, then, Villain isn't me.