Villan has been pretty active since i sat down at table. He is running 19/7/3 over 25 hands. Not sure if B/F would be a better option on the river.


PokerStars - $1 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: $106.89
BB: $75.96
UTG: $96.86
UTG+1: $108.50
UTG+2: $43.29
Hero (MP): $122.64
MP+1: $227.65
CO: $121.03
BTN: $125.41

SB posts SB $0.50, BB posts BB $1.00

Pre Flop: (pot: $1.50) Hero has K A

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to $3.00, fold, fold, BTN calls $3.00, fold, BB calls $2.00

Flop: ($9.50, 3 players) 7 J K
BB checks, Hero bets $6.00, fold, BB calls $6.00

Turn: ($21.50, 2 players) 5
BB checks, Hero bets $10.00, BB calls $10.00

River: ($41.50, 2 players) 3
BB checks, Hero checks

BB shows T 9 (High Card, King) (Pre 36%, Flop 33%, Turn 18%)

19/7 does not sounds that active. Either way, bet flop a bit bigger, turn way bigger, and vbet river

You're practically never getting raised on the river here- so that shouldn't be a deterrent to value betting.

$7.50/$19.50/shove

lol'd at pretty active.

I dont hate preflp or flop but bet bigger on the turn and i think you can still value bet the river. Are you really that scared or runner runner flush or do you just think villain would be scared enough about it to not call with worse often enough to make vbet profitable?

Yeah, you could prolly just bet/fold riv as played. He's seems like he's got SDV and your line looks strong enough that i think a river bet is thin but only in the sense that its usually just not getting called at all, not because your only getting called by better, and not cause you should be worried about raise.

PF; seems OK
FLP: seems OK
Turn; way too small (go like 5/6ish)
Riv; value bet for sure; but i'd size it small cause there aren't a lot of hands calling a pot sized bet on the end. Your hoping to get called by a semi weak and fairly small range of hands. Maybe go 1/2 pot on river and lay weakish hands 3 to 1.. you maybe get some crying calls.

Cool thanks for the insight. I dont like to get myself into river situations where I have to puke fold TPTK when lots of players have such polarized ranges on the river.Not alot of weaker hands are calling anyway and I block a river C/R. This Villan was doing weird things and taking lines that made no sense. Like it didn't suprise me when he peeled with a double gutter.

Big fish like this NEVER have a polarized range at any stage of a hand.