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Originally Posted by MeleaB
^Why would he raise a Queen before the river?
"Paying for information" on a single hand (even without the shltload of free info available from dozens of other hands) is silly and costly.
It says he is new to table, no other information given on this player in question.
He might raise the flop to define where he is at with his queen. We can't always expect it to be beaten holding the queen in that spot. Mixing up the play at times is needed and at times we have to attempt to define a hand.
The information you are getting by making the call is not the same information that is available to you if you fold.
If the villain does have a Queen and makes the turn call, he is getting into very deep water with a 1 pair hand. That is a player that will drop his stack on the end. How is he folding if it bricks off and his queen is still top pair? He has stuck in 40$ already and the pot is large. At the river it is 77$ and the effective stack is approximately 70. He could face an all in for the stack with TP or any amount in between.
That is the idea of the information I am speaking of. It is that information that we absolutely want to have on a player. You are only going to get it by seeing it, and if it is a showdown with another player, you miss the opportunity.
Last edited by schmidts31; 11-24-2016 at 05:14 PM.
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