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Is A Blocking Bet A Good Idea Here?

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jesusflorestz
Joined: 30.03.2021

I think preflop, flop and turn was standard.

Now, on river I want to know if this is always a check/fold against a bet, or if it's possible to do a blocking bet and fold to a raise, or check/call sometimes to induce bluffs?

Because the problem I see on checking these boards on the river is that we can easily get bluffed if villain is decent.

In this hand in particular I called on river because I thought that sizing was more bluff prone than value prone.

Because most of the times I value bet with 1/2 half pot or even 1/3 pot on similar rivers to get paid.

He didn't know how strong I was and if I was able to call that big bet on the river.

Now, most likely he was just betting his hand big for value and not thinking about anything else.

So most likely I would have folded there if I saw a 1/2 pot or 1/3 pot bet.

What do you guys think?


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Mstlc
Joined: 14.03.2009

I'd think it's best to play bet/fold or check/fold here. Check/call looks like the worst line for me because you're giving your opponent the chance to check weaker hands behind, hands like AQ & KQ which he might be afraid to "valuebet" due to the nature of the board. Also, if you're check/calling you're paying his entire value range anyway. If that's what you're gonna do you might as well bet/fold.

By check/calling it feels like you're kind of turning your hand into a bluff catcher while imo there's not a lot of bluffs to catch apart from pure air. There's not a lot of busted straights draws he can bluff the river with considering hands like QJ & QT made two pair along the way & Q9 got there. And he doesn't have busted flush draws in his range as the 1 draw on the board got there as well.

I'd probably play bet/fold here, maybe make it 1/2 pot?


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Tomaloc
Joined: 17.01.2011

check/fold and hope that the opponent checks behind a worse one pair.
with 4 to a straight and the backdoor flush completing, you'd need villain to turn a lot of his one pair hands into bluffs to call profitably here.


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