Raise the river?

Homer · #1 08-18-2003, 03:40 PM

Party 2/4. I'm dealt 7s 7d in MP. EMP limps, I limp, button limps, SB completes and BB checks. Five to the flop.

Flop - 8d 9c 9d

Checked around.

Turn - 5d

BB bets, only I call.

River - 9s

BB bets, I raise, BB calls.

-- Homer

JTG51 · #2 08-18-2003, 03:46 PM

I'd bet that flop just about every time. Given that you didn't, I think your turn and river play were good.

Homer · #3 08-18-2003, 03:47 PM

As I was posting this, I wondered why I didn't bet the flop. Not doing so certainly made the rest of the hand more difficult to play...

-- Homer

CrackerZack · #4 08-18-2003, 03:51 PM

Slummin' in 2-4 Homer? I haven't been on since the power went out, but on thursday, the 3-6 was still pretty juicy?

question, ok, you bet the flop, all fold to BB who calls, you get C/R'd on the turn, what to do, what to do? What if the turn wasn't a 3rd diamond and you get C/R'd? This type of situation has been troubling me recently as I've been bluffed a few times by a ragged C/R on the turn once it became heads up.

Kurn, son of Mogh · #5 08-18-2003, 03:51 PM

I like the river raise. I would've bet the flop. As it is, I don't really have an idea where I am on the turn. Since the flop was checked around the BB's turn bet can mean anything, and depending on my feel for the table, I'd be tempted to raise there.

Aximillian · #6 08-18-2003, 03:53 PM

The check around on the flop tells me that no one has an 8 or a 9. The [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] on the turn is scary. When you fill up on the river, I don't see any reason why your hand isn't good, if he had a bigger pocket pair, he whould have at least bet the flop. I'd put him on the flush and play it the same way.

Kurn, son of Mogh · #7 08-18-2003, 03:57 PM

The problem is, the way the action went down, Homer can't be sure the BB doesn't have the case 9 until he just calls the river raise (unless the BB is a total weenie and is scared of the str8 flush).

JTG51 · #8 08-18-2003, 03:58 PM

Who knows, maybe checking the flop made the decisions easier this time. You'd have a hard choice to make if you bet the flop, then got check raised on the turn by the BB. I still think a flop bet was definitely the best play.

JTG51 · #9 08-18-2003, 04:00 PM

Not to mention that the BB could easily have played an 8 this way. Because of that I think the river raise is a close decision, but still a good one.

Aximillian · #10 08-18-2003, 04:01 PM

I wouldn't figure BB would slowplay flopped trips. What else would make you think that he had a nine?