Just a very strange hand

The_Bends · #1 08-08-2005, 11:58 AM

Party Poker (6 max, 6 handed) NL $50 converter

Preflop: Hero is BB with T[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
3 folds, Button calls, SB calls, Hero checks.

Flop: 2[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (3 players)
SB checks, Hero checks, Button checks.

Turn: 7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (3 players)
SB checks, Hero checks, Button checks.

River: 9[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (3 players)
SB bets $0.50, Hero Raises to $3, Button calls, SB raises to $8, Hero ....?

Ok so sometihng odd has happened here and I'll admit that at the time I really didn't know what was going on. Clearly with no flush or higher straight on the board my hand is very strong and the lack of action before the river would suggest that the hand is good. However I could think of literally no hand that play this way tht I could beat. An overpair seemed unthinkable. A slowplayed set of sevens or eights seemed possible if very unlikely, nines seemed even less likely since surely there would have been a raise on the flop or turn. This simply left a hand with a two in it that had been played very slow or a 9-x hand that had woken up on the river.

The buttton only had enough to cover the RR to $8 so I wasn't worried about him since I was obviously calling. My question is, is ther value in raising here? Is the hand strong enough, does it get calls from hands it beats?

SB was pretty standard for this level, a little lose preflop and a little too passive. He had $50 behind and I had him covered.