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01-03-2018 , 03:15 AM

sandro

stranger

Join Date: Jan 2018 Posts: 2

Cash 1/3 - $260 effective stack

UTG 1 - limp/fold
MP2- Limp / fold
CT - hero -Qs9s bet 20
Small - Call 20

Pot- 50

Flop- 9s4s2o

Small- bet 22
Hero- re-raise 60
Small fold

I was wondering if I bet for value or bluff?, since he donkey bet he could have a better 9 than me.

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01-03-2018 , 03:21 AM

NewClintEastwood

centurion

Join Date: Dec 2017 Posts: 166

what was your hand and the board? looks like you put a 9s for both. Assuming you had a pair of 9s a bet should definitely have been for value rather than bluff. Id tend to let a villain continue by just calling in this situation. Raise on turn if anything

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01-03-2018 , 03:29 AM

Chicagodude

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Join Date: Feb 2013 Posts: 2,810

With your hand, top pair with 2 spades (is that correct?) then I would just call his bet there and bet turn regardless.

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01-03-2018 , 06:05 AM

Nogyong

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Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 2,801

no point in responding until the correct suits are known

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01-03-2018 , 10:40 AM

donbarzini

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Join Date: Jun 2014 Posts: 73

Check out No-Limit Hold ’em For Advanced Players by Matthew Janda. He spends a lot of time explaining why thinking in terms of "value or bluff" is incorrect.

Basically he says that we bet to deny equity or to build the pot or both. In this hand, it is probably both.

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01-03-2018 , 12:12 PM

shorn7

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 4,495

Bad deck with two 9s. Hand over and floor called for new setup.

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