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Scare card bet; call or raise?
I get into these situations a fair bit and always wonder whether I'm leaving chips on the table when I do this. Who raises this river (keeping in mind that this is a relatively easy fold to a 3 bet)?
FullTiltPoker Game #223266987: $10,000 Guarantee (1394215), Table 39 - 25/50 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:22:28 ET - 2005/09/18 Seat 1: xDANMONEYx (1,255) Seat 2: b-lo30 (945) Seat 3: Preiszless (1,955) Seat 4: JHutch19 (2,860) Seat 5: Carpe Carpem (1,485) Seat 6: homie5 (1,415) Seat 7: TruKilla (1,970) Seat 8: Adar (1,675) Seat 9: IGotAcesFool (1,395) TruKilla posts the small blind of 25 Adar posts the big blind of 50 The button is in seat #6 *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to Adar [3c 9d] IGotAcesFool folds xDANMONEYx folds b-lo30 folds Preiszless folds JHutch19 folds Carpe Carpem folds homie5 calls 50 TruKilla calls 25 Adar checks *** FLOP *** [3d 5s 8s] TruKilla checks Adar checks homie5 checks *** TURN *** [3d 5s 8s] [Qc] TruKilla checks Adar checks homie5 checks *** RIVER *** [3d 5s 8s Qc] [3s] TruKilla bets 200 Adar calls 200 |
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Re: Scare card bet; call or raise?
I think as a rule, calling this river is probably best. There aren't enough enticing looking second-best hands for him to be calling a bet with. Against a donkish opponent who I think is capable of playing a Q this way and calling, I might push, but barring that I'll just call here. In almost any situation where I do bet the river here, I'm pushing, because I think the stacks are such that it's a weaker looking raise than most of the smaller raises you could make here.
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Re: Scare card bet; call or raise?
On this specific hand, I think just calling is preferable because I don't see a hand that plays this way, is calling a raise, and that you beat. In similar situations where there are hands that satisfy this, however, I think minraising is an attractive option, when you're unlikely to get reraised by a hand that you beat.
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