Anemic teenage ghostboy hand

[J.A.Sucker]

Hi monkeyboy,

Bet the turn. If you get C/R'd, you are still getting the price to suck out on him and that would be awesome. I would consider 3 betting and taking the showdown if you've been especially nitty to this point, which I suspect you have been, because you don't gamble with white people, especially very pasty ones. This is done because he may use the K as a scare card, but still have a slightly better hand. I think he'd fold AQ here, so lock n' load.

[Fianchetto]

Preflop and flop I like your play.

Turn is the interesting street, and a lot of the time I think you should follow through with a bet here. The king could be a scary card for him as well since you have represented strength throughout. You'd like for him to fold a 6 outer, or maybe you can get him to give up with pocket 5's. If called you can check the river.

If he is a tricky/good player I can see your reason for checking. You are going to get checkraised a fair amount of the time, if behind you have somewhere between 4 and 10 outs and you would be forced to call. Then the river blanks, and you have to fold to a bet in what is by that time a large pot, sick feeling.

After you check the turn, I see no reason to bet the river as you have some showdown value, and I think he will look you up with almost anything.

So I think you should fire again on the turn often in this situation.

[bad beetz]

I noticed this dude last time I was at Commerce. He sticks out like my boner in 8th grade science class.

Like everyone else at that casino, he is a mutant.

I think you played the hand, uh, no one cares what I think.... Plus I don't know.

[worm33]

So say u bet the turn and he calls. Do you bet the river?

[haakee]

I'd be pretty certain I have the worst hand and I would be worried that against a relative unknown like me the only hands he would fold would be AJ or AQ, so I'd probably check the river if the turn went check-bet-call.

[worm33]

I guess if maybe you had some history you could use that, but as long as he doesnt think your a loon, its pretty hard for him to call with anything but a king or ten jacks or queens if you fire 3 barells after u capped from the bb. Personaly I think the best play is to bet the turn and if called bet the river.

[haakee]

He turned over 88 to take it down. I'm not sure what he would've done but in retrospect I prefer betting the turn since the K is an ugly scare card for a lot of his probable holdings.

This wasn't the young man in question, by any chance?

[haakee]

Hehe, indeed it was.

[J.A.Sucker]

Who's his lover?