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Turning busted draw into bluff on the river?

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chrischan0683
Joined: 23.08.2007

Poker Stars, $0.05/$0.10 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 6 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: $10.15 (101.5 bb)
BB: $15.46 (154.6 bb)
UTG: $5.08 (50.8 bb)
MP: $10 (100 bb)
CO: $8.38 (83.8 bb)
Hero (BTN): $11.22 (112.2 bb)

Preflop: Hero is BTN with T♦: A♦:
UTG folds, MP raises to $0.25, CO folds, Hero calls $0.25, 2 folds

Flop: ($0.65) 2♦: 6♣: 5♣: (2 players)
MP bets $0.40, Hero calls $0.40

Turn: ($1.45) 5♦: (2 players)
MP bets $0.80, Hero calls $0.80

River: ($3.05) 8♠: (2 players)
MP checks, Hero bets $1.55, MP raises to $8.55 and is all-in, Hero folds

Results:

Spoiler

$6.15 pot ($0.28 rake)
Final Board: 2♦: 6♣: 5♣: 5♦: 8♠:
MP mucked and won $5.87 ($2.87 net)
Hero mucked T♦: A♦: and lost (-$3 net)

Another misplayed hand? Do you raise the flop or river as semibluff?

I bet the river because I think villian could have give up on a draw like clubs or 78 and this is the only chance to win the hand.


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la55i
Joined: 27.01.2013

I think it looks fine. Villains line looks mostly like busted draw.


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KingKlaas
Joined: 13.12.2008

If villain has a draw too, our draw could be possible the best hand.
Also villain could induce a bluff, to let us bet a busted draw.
We could checkback better imo.


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MyFloXyBabY
Joined: 15.02.2010

I don't think we can make him fold a lot here, I would go for the check behind too.


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chrischan0683
Joined: 23.08.2007

Originally posted by la55i
I think it looks fine. Villains line looks mostly like busted draw.

So bet river is OK? The other guys here vote for check behind river because we are ahead sometimes against weaker busted draws.


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la55i
Joined: 27.01.2013

Yea checking behind actually might be better.


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VaskataBuci
Joined: 08.08.2011

Raise flop with 2 overs and the backdoor. As played x behind river is better.


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YohanN7
Joined: 15.06.2009

No disaster, but bluffing on a 8♣: river would be better. The 8♠: is harder to represent.


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Mozzek
Joined: 16.07.2016

Isn´t better to just fold OTF? Unles villain cbets a lot. We have only backdoor draws... As yohan mentioned I believe we can bet if club comes, with spade checking back would be better imo.


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YohanN7
Joined: 15.06.2009

I like floating here a lot. That flop didn't hit him very hard. Splashing around on the cheap streets IP with backdoor nut outs, fake outs :9x:, :club:, possibly more , is good poker. Even hitting a T looks good (an A should probably be checked back or perhaps folded if he bets turn big (domination)).


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inceptioner
Joined: 23.05.2012

I like it. One question to all of you; can we bet smaller on the river?


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la55i
Joined: 27.01.2013

Imo yes and no. If we are trying to fold out some pocket pairs too we should go bigger. But we already figured out that villains range is mostly flush draws and we already beat most of them. We also concluded that checking behind is better. So if you are going to bet and try to get weaker hands to fold, sure you can bet smaller. But I just don't see any reason to bet at all.


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MyFloXyBabY
Joined: 15.02.2010

Yeah, imo betting smaller is the worst, the hands we want to make villain fold will have an easier call so we accomplish nothing. If we bet big I believe that it won't work well enough but it should work a little better at least anyway.
You have to think about what kind of hand does villain donk twice on that lame board and would give up on that lame river, and as far as I'm concerned I don't see much of them (except FD we dominate as said). If he doesn't have a FD then he probably has a pair, and a simple pair is happy to x/c a small bet here.


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chrischan0683
Joined: 23.08.2007

Raise flop wouldn't be OK to get hands like 6x to fold?

What if we hold T♣:A♣: for the nutflush draw? Would you raise flop now?


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MyFloXyBabY
Joined: 15.02.2010

On the one hand, nutBDFD+ 2 OC is supposed to be a good bluffraise flop, but on the other hand I don't see a bluffraise making fold a bunch here, and certainly not 6x, OP and FD. Way better to flat imo.
If we hold T♣:A♣: it's supposed to be a call in a GTO split, which you don't need to follow if you don't want to but that's to say there are points in prefering calling that combo and raise other rather, even vs bad opponents it can make a difference.
Without talking about protecting your calling range and things like that, just notice that ATs has solid showdown value and enough equity to be called, but not really enough equity to be a value raise that strong against the calling range of villain, so it doesn't sound that clever to raise it flop.


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piR
piR
Joined: 31.08.2008

Imo check back is better in this scenario; on that 8 you don't make fold hand you beat. Hand that fold here you beat already.

On a club OTR; bet would make more sense.


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