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Originally Posted by PokerIsFrustrating
SB raises are almost never bluffs - his range is probably tighter than his UTG raising range.
Respectfully, I completely disagree with this. IMHO, the range of a typical SB raiser behind a few limpers is comparable to the raising range of a LP bettor. Moreover, the fewer the limpers, the wider the SB's range is. Here, with only 2 limpers showing interest in the pot, I think the SB's pre-flop raising range looks something like 77+, A9+, and any two Broadway cards.
That is why I also disagree with the fold on the river. Given the lines taken here, the SB's range can easily include a lot of underpairs to an ace. I would make this call and not lose any sleep about paying off a better ace.
As always, you might need to adjust your estimate of a particular player's raising range based on a few repeated observations of that player's tendencies over the course of a session. However, as a general proposition, I would have to assess a player as a complete nit before I assumed that his raising range out of the SB and behind only 2 limpers to be tighter than an UTG raiser.