X-Party skins are best! (and a hand with content)

kapw7 · #1 10-24-2005, 05:05 PM

I stayed away from x-skins clearing bonuses at PS and Absolute (X-llent!). I still have $200 in my bonus acct with Euro, so I tried to 4-table the 1/2 6-max games. And they are great. A lot of weak players plus bad players. LAG's paradise.

The following hand from these games but don't let the above affect your replies:

Both players have recently joined the table but the looked to have an idea of what they were doing (simply meaning they were not idiots).

Party Poker 1/2 Hold'em (6 max, 5 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx

Preflop: Hero is Button with 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
UTG calls, 1 fold, Hero raises, SB calls, BB calls, UTG calls.

Flop: (8 SB) 3[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (4 players)
SB bets, BB calls, UTG calls, Hero calls.

Turn: (6 BB) 5[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (4 players)
SB checks, BB bets, UTG folds, Hero raises, SB calls, BB 3-bets, Hero calls, SB calls.

River: (15 BB) 2[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (3 players)
SB checks, BB bets,
Hero?

hemstock · #2 10-24-2005, 05:13 PM

Call because the pot is big.

benkath1 · #3 10-24-2005, 05:16 PM

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That's what I was going to say. The way you played the turn, you should call the river.

deception5 · #4 10-24-2005, 05:16 PM

I think a river fold is fine.

deception5 · #5 10-24-2005, 05:17 PM

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I think calling the turn is ok because we have outs against 2-pair/top pair.

#6 10-24-2005, 05:18 PM

Does anybody raise the river to force out SB, giving us a better chance at winning? Should we just fold?

benkath1 · #7 10-24-2005, 05:18 PM

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I think calling the turn is ok because we have outs against 2-pair/top pair.

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I gotcha, but getting 16:1, you don't call the river?

hemstock · #8 10-24-2005, 05:19 PM

You propably have SB beaten and you shouldnt worry about him at the moment. Plus, getting raised would suck

deception5 · #9 10-24-2005, 05:22 PM

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I think calling the turn is ok because we have outs against 2-pair/top pair.

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I gotcha, but getting 16:1, you don't call the river?

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Not if my read was at all solid. If it's only based on 40 hands or so I'd probably call as I've been surprised lately when someone plays a draw really strongly on the turn and his play could be 66 or even A [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]6 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]. If my read was that he was a good player over 80 or so hands I'd probably fold.

Disconnected · #10 10-24-2005, 05:23 PM

I wouldn't raise the turn. You've got a new aggressor, it feels like BB is possibly slowplaying (or semi-unlikely got some help with that turn card). With that 2nd best pair, I'd want to get to showdown cheaply, and would hate to have it 3-bet behind me.

The way it went down, I guess it's a call. I really don't have much hope to win this pot, but maybe BB went nuts with a bluff/semi-bluff and realizes that the only way to make it pay off is to continue on the river. If your hand was good enough to call the turn 3-bet, you have to think it's good enough to call the river, FWIW.