Hmmm Flush Draw hand

[Shillx]

I did call here. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] This is a pretty easy raise IMO and I dropped the ball here.

The river was the 2 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] and it went check-check. He tabled 98 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] and took the pot. As for Catt's reply...calling the turn and raising the river is an awesome idea as long as you know that he will bet again on the end with hands like 77 and 98s. The problem is that they will almost always check/call since hands like AQ and AJ aren't going to payoff given the action. If he did bet again, it would either be a stone bluff which AJ could beat or it would be a big hand like a full house or trips.

As an aside, I would just call on this turn card with a hand like AK. If he is betting middle pair, I don't want him to fold to a raise and I will get tons of action on the river from a worse king if that he what he has (so it isn't like I'm missing value in those spots). In a HU pot you can afford to take these lines with big hands since you don't have to worry as much about getting outdrawn. So my verdict is to just call here with a big hand (pop the river) and raise with a draw or a weak hand.

As another aside, if I raised and got 3-bet I would consider folding but then call. If I do end up making the flush, I would just call his river bet.

Brad