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In this hand we river top two pair and have to decide what to do vs a bet from the villain. What would you do.
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If you raise this river it has to be to get opponent to fold an 8. Villain never has a worse 10 like you say. Would you have been on board with turning 109 into a bluff with key blockers to boats. If villain tanked with an 8 would a river raise to say 350 have worked?
People do some weird bad in live.
I'd probably sigh call and lose maybe 75% of the time. I definitely would not re-raise on the river.
I also hope that the caller understands that a re-raise with two pair in that spot is a bluff, not a value bet.
only getting called by better…
he fails to ask himself, "why am I betting?"
Lol this guys clueless lmao
bad time to be raising, methinks
The simple question of why am I betting/raising cures this horrible raise. You would only be raising to get called by a worse hand. What worse hand can possibly call you here? Even a mushroom induced vision quest can't invent one. Hence, no reason to raise.
Taking a second to ask myself that quick question "why am I betting or raising" has been one of the easiest improvements to my game. You can easily see this raise makes no sense if you do that.
The turn is the interesting bit of this hand, I probably would have checked back turn had I been in this spot but I love the "reverse blocker" idea. The check back is fine too though, invites a load of bluffs on the river so it's a pretty trivial river call in my book
Yeah if you would ever bet the river for value, bet the turn instead when you can still get the draws to peel. Hard to bluff you oop when you have the betting lead on a paired board.
You can't be raising for value in that he's never going to call if he doesn't have it. Agree with Bart that you just call and if he's got an 8 so be it.