9-handed live 1/2 casino game. Cutoff seems to be a decent MAWG reg, only played a few orbits with him. BTN is unknown. 100bb effective stack

CO raises to $5

BTN calls

Hero calls in BB with 5h3h

Flop ($16) Jh 9h 7s

Hero checks, CO bets $10, BTN folds, Hero calls

Turn ($26) Kh

Hero checks, villian checks

River ($26) 2h

Hero bets $13, Villian raises to $45

Hero?

Well played, provided you folded to the river raise. He's going to have the nut flush at least 80% of the time here.

Fold pre, 53s does not play well out of position and without initiative. It also has absolutely horrendous reverse implied odds, as seen here. AP don't lead on the river. There is literally 1 combo of a worse flush than you. Best case scenario he calls with a King, but I think you'd make more money inducing a bluff then you would going for thin value because he's going to try to steal way more often then he'd call off with a strong pair. As played, fold river obviously.

Preflop
I dont mind the preflop call here but not loving it either, it isnt too much more to call but our hand is weak and we are oop for the whole hand so i can see why people would like to fold but really is up too the individual and there capability to play this way.
Flop
I can see a call to the cbet the best option the flop hits everyone range pretty well and dont expect any pair+draws to fold.
Turn
I am donking out here a fair amount of the time too get value from your hand.if he raises well that will come down too your reads on villian too know if you are good here.
There is also a good chance he checks back a lot of the time here with midrange 1 heart hands
River
Am never betting here and very very rarely calling, if he bluffs at it here well good luck too him.
Overall I think that given the lack of reads on villian i would kind of lean to fold preflop and just let it go. there are plenty of spots where you can play small 1 gappers but this is just not one of them

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Should probably fold this pre but whatever. River bet is way wrong, what are you trying to achieve by betting? Check and probably call. Definitely fold to the raise. It's actually a pretty good spot to bluff raise you, but nobody ever bluff raises at LLSNL.

Ez fold on the river with 4th heart. Not sure why you aren’t betting the turn? I would prolly bet full pot on turn or close to it as you wanna build a pot with your flush. Most cards in the deck are good on river so you can bet most cards for pot again if you make turn bet.... river card is terrible for this line but can’t be results orientated.

I think the call pre is fine. Calling 3 dollars in a multi-way pot with a super easy hand to play is fine with me. I think 3-5h is a great hand to call with here as long as you are disciplined post flop and can make a big lay down. It sucks to be oop but we aren’t in a huge bloated 3 bet pot. I’m against playing bigger pots oop but a small raise pot.... can’t be terrible. Prolly not ideal preflop play or most profitable but I’m fine with the call pre. You are obv going to be check folding a ton in this spot but you gotta peel a flop when price is solid. I’ll get ridiculed for this but i would rather call a 5 dollar raise from bb here vs a 8-12 raise as pot easily got bloated and will be more expensive to chase draws when flop agrees with your hand.

Agree that betting river is wrong here also. You should prolly check call but even that is a tough spot. Your flush is terrible with 4th heart on board. I see a random 1-2 villian never betting here unless they have you beat

Calling $3 is fine with me. Folding is too.

Flop, we have crap draw. I don't raise many flush draws as we generally are given correct price to call. But I am likely raising this flop $30. Gives us really good chance to take it down. As I expect him to cbet nearly his entire range.

As played. I likely lead turn. This is wet board and expect to get a lot of calls.

River is check/eval. Folding to raise 100%

Why did you bet the river?

OP this is actually the most important thing to think about because it shows that your thought process is miles off track. The most fundamental questions when considering betting are 1) what worse hands can call? and 2) what better hands can be made to fold? It's clear that you didn't ask yourself these questions OTR because the answers are "probably none, probably none".

River bet isn't awful if you feel you have to bluff catch. The size of pot, and size of his bet will get looked up quite often.

as played, fold.

Next time, check river and only call a small bet