How good is an underboat in this game?

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.... SB raises this with a full on the river ....

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Tex - Not necessarily. SB may want to pull in a call from UTG and Hero. Or SB, holding something like KQJT might be worried about an opponent holding kings full.

(It's not out of the question for MP3 to have kings full, although actually, I think MP3 is the most likely candidate for KQJT).

Or SB, holding QJT9, might be worried about an opponent holding either kings full or jacks full of kings.

Finally there's a possibility MP3 has quad jacks, perhaps as QJJT. By itself, quad jacks is a distant threat, but taken with all the other possibilities for Hero's demise, I think prudence is in order.

At any rate let's suppose Hero is not prudent, does raise, gets re-raised by MP3, and both SB and UTG fold to the double bet. Now what?

There always are six possible full houses when the board is paired. In addition, when you do not have a card the same rank as the board pair, there is the possibility of an opponent holding quads. Here Hero has the fifth-nut full house, which from hero's perspective is actually the sixth nut high hand. There are FIVE higher possible hands for Hero's opponents here, and they all involve cards most opponents would tend to play.

Raise on the river??? Yikes!

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