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[SH] K flush river raise

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$5.00 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players

Hero (SB): $19.11
BB: $5.13 - VPIP: 6, PFR: 6, 3B: 0, AF: 0.0, Hands: 31
UTG: $8.56
MP: $5.07
CO: $2.66 - VPIP: 48, PFR: 21, 3B: 24, AF: 3.7, Hands: 63
BTN: $4.39 - VPIP: 50, PFR: 36, 3B: 24, AF: 1.9, Hands: 56

Pre Flop: ($0.07) Hero is SB with Q♦ K♥
2 folds, CO calls $0.05, BTN raises to $0.20, Hero calls $0.18, 1 fold, CO calls $0.15

CO is a fish but I don't have any specific reads. Sometimes he would open-limp, sometimes min-3bet, he min-bets postflop instead of checking, and he doesn't rebuy to 100 BB, but other than that I'm not sure what kind of fish he is.

We had some short history with BU, namely he is the sole reason I'm 400 BB deep. He's an aggro-fish, and now I think he's tilting and willing to play more aggressively against me. I prefer calling because:
1) I hope to keep CO in the pot. He should call one raise, but probably not two.
2) BU doesn't seem to like playing strong and medium-strong hands IP, he just 4/5-bets them, which I don't want in this spot.

Flop: ($0.65) J♥ 5♠ 9♥ (3 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $0.20, BTN calls $0.20, Hero calls $0.20

We can call that much with gutshot and overcards.

Turn: ($1.25) 6♥ (3 players)
Hero checks, CO checks, BTN checks

River: ($1.25) 2♥ (3 players)
Hero bets $0.60, CO raises to $2.26, BTN folds, Hero calls $1.66

I was thinking it would be nice to get a call from a smaller heart, and so I chose to bet rather than check.

We need to win this 30% of the time to make a profitable call. The question is how often can we expect the villain to raise here with something weaker than A flush?


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Tomaloc
Joined: 17.01.2011
metza
Joined: 28.01.2012

I would bet close to pot on the river, if he is a fish he probably doesn't even fold any flush for that price, and it makes it a lot easier to fold when he raises. When you bet half pot you get into self-levelling spots where you feel like you induced with the sizing.


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nitrol
Joined: 24.07.2010

Fish can do a bunch of strange reason stuff. In this case bet bigger river so when you face a raise you know it is for value.


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Ales851
Joined: 16.07.2012

Agree that bigger bet on the river and it makes easier fold vs his raise. As played I think we are in guessing spot.


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Agree with bet/folding, but why is 1/2 pot river bet "inducing"? Sometimes I bet 1/2 pot on river when I don't think worse hands will call more, but they might hero-call 1/2 pot, which is still a decent chunk of money (except here we all checked turn).

Is there something wrong with betting 1/2 pot on river in general, or is it just in this case because the pot is small (but so is villain's stack)?


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Ales851
Joined: 16.07.2012

It´s nothing wrong in general with 1/2 bet on the river. But here against probably bad player I guess he call let say 2/3 - 3/4 with probably any flush so we have more value in bigger sizing. Also when he holds something like Qhigh flush he can sometimes think that he actually raising for value vs 1/2 bet which looks no so strong. But vs bigger sizing he would probably just call.


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nitrol
Joined: 24.07.2010

We miss something. We are mw and CO raises river with a player still to act, so nothing to guess here- fold.


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nitrol
Joined: 24.07.2010

As for the bigger bet, we try to extract value and we will know for sure we have to fold when raised.


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metza
Joined: 28.01.2012

Originally posted by Th334
Agree with bet/folding, but why is 1/2 pot river bet "inducing"? Sometimes I bet 1/2 pot on river when I don't think worse hands will call more, but they might hero-call 1/2 pot, which is still a decent chunk of money (except here we all checked turn).

Is there something wrong with betting 1/2 pot on river in general, or is it just in this case because the pot is small (but so is villain's stack)?

No its mainly because a fish will hate folding a flush even a low one so you may as well get as much money as you can


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