Is this rivered full house a check back?
Your opponent has checked to you and you have a boat, surely this is a bet? The solvers may not agree with you on this one.
Our friends Dara and David at the Unibet sponsored Chip Race Podcast have a tough hand that involved a gut wrenching river decision. David was deep in the €1,100 Unibet Open Online and, after betting the river with a full house, faced the prospect of having to fold to a check raise all-in.
He polled a lot of high profile players on whether they would have bet the river when checked to, the only person who answered the same as the solvers, that this spot was a pure check, was his co-host Dara O'Kearney.
Dara goes through the reasons why the solvers do this as well as explaining how ICM plays a significant role in the decison (in case you missed it, Dara just wrote the book on ICM). They also discuss the merits of making the GTO decision compared to going with population tendencies as your guide.
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