Uneventful 7 hours 5/T (with some 5/T/20 mixed in) session last night. Up about a buy in. This is the biggest pot I played:
QQ from the big blind
Utg raises to 35. Next guy 3bets to 140. Folds around H calls in BB with QQ. Utg says he has a nice hand and also calls. Eff 1300.
Flop ($420): 984r. H checks, UTG donk bets 240. The UTG+1 3 bettor folds. H calls.
Turn ($900): K clubs flush draw. Check check
River ($900): 4o. Check check. V shows A9dd MHIG
I thought about thin value bet on the river because when UTG said he had a nice hand, I thought he might have had a suited or connector type of hand that hit the 8 or 9 on the flop (or if he had both 89, he just got counterfeited on the river - but 89 is pretty much impossible to have here).
However given that I cold called an early 3bet from the BB, and check called on that rainbow flop (recently Ive ran into a lot of scenarios where I cold called a 3bet from the blinds, which is kind of annoying because your range becomes so narrow), there isnt much he can call with if I bet on the river. I thought I'd check/call and let him try to either bluff at it with JT/JQ/67 type hands, or value own himself by betting too thin (which surprisingly a lot of rec players still do, even in higher stake games, where it makes no sense to bet the river when they are never getting called by worse and rarely folding out better.
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Disclaimer: my pot math is approximate and may be off by $5-15 dont nag me pls
Last edited by Snowball2; 08-16-2014 at 01:05 PM.