V: very good player. He is a pro. Covers all. He can be overly aggressive at times but has great live reads seems like he always makes the right decisions on the river. Difficult to play against in general and can be sticky sometimes.

H: think v probably views me as okay. I tend to overfold in general against aggression and I know V knows this. I think overfolding is probably okay but I just autopilot a lot and don’t really think about the hands a lot. I probably have 900 to start the hand.

OTTH: V opens HJ to 20 I call BB with 10h8h

Flop 8d6d9c
Checks to V he bets 20 I call

Anyone doing anything else here?

Maybe we could consider a check raise to deny equity being OOP?
I think call is standard though

(80) turn is 10h

Check check

River Ks

I bet 10 (just block betting here but idk if I like it) v makes it 170?

Weird hand…

Do you play poker for profit or do you just like the challenge? I don't defend my BB against really good players with T8. You're OOP and good players aren't going to pay you off often enough when you hit.


I'd either check-call the river or bet-fold 1/2 the pot. Almost prefer c/c against this villain. The $10 looks like a scared blocker bet.

I would CR flop. But you have to know which runouts you can double and triple.

As played just check river. The small lead just seems bad.

As played I would call if he's good. He could even show up with AK for value vs your line.

Never folding here but would have preferred c/c to the $10 lead. But not folding either way.

Misdeal the Th is in your hand.

I would check call river. Since you “checked” for 10 dollars I would call the bomb.

I prefer to bet this river unless you think he's going thin with a King or a big pair on this board that favours you. It's a bad runout for him. As played I would call. Up until the river I like the way it was played

You did a great job inducing villain to raise by looking scared and weak betting 10. Now you snap call.

I would not choose this hand for a flop check raise because its a bit too in between. Not strong enough to call a flop 3bet or play for stacks but too strong that if we get flop 3bet its an absolute disaster to have to fold.

The hand is well played in my opinion if we assume you bet 10 on the river to induce villain to make this large raise. I dont actually think thats the case. Next time just bet half pot and get called by Kx.

Betting $10 into $80 is too cute for our hand against this board and this V. Just check-call or lead for 1/2 to 2/3 pot.

Which line I'd take would depend on history with V. If we've seen him check back made hands on the turn, I'd just check-call. If he's mostly barreling turn with thick value, I'd bet out. If he's seen us hitting the aggression button when we hit a draw on earlier streets, I'd be more likely to check call. If he's seen us check raise the nuts on the river, I'd just lead out.

AP, I dunno. V could have just called with all the marginal showdown value hands in his range. We could have a lot of 2P and some straights here. If we've seen V check back turn with strong hands, I might find a fold. Otherwise, with no other reads, I guess we call, but I'm not loving it when he takes this sizing on this run-out. This feels like a pretty nutted hand and a V who was hoping we'd donk lead bigger, and is now hoping we'll want to bluff catch with a hand that is stronger than we appeared on the turn.

To re-run this, imagine we check to V for a third time. He's probably not betting huge, when we showed so much weakness. Even a huge pot sized bet would only be $80, but he's probably only betting $40-$50. Easy call. Or imagine we bet $40-$50, and he raises. Easy fold. Now we're looking at a huge 2x pot overbet from a pro who always seems to know exactly where he's at.

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