ran into a difficult situation and wanted some opinion

6 max 1/2

no stats on villan

Stack size, H 250BB, V120BB

H LJ with KK opens to 6, V button 3b to 18, H 4B to 59, V calls.

flop 5 2 A rainbow. H bets 1/3 pot, V calls.

turn 9 ranbow. H checks, V checks.

River 6 brick, H checks, V jams.

H calls, V show AQo and wins pot

with no prior stats on v, ranges I had him on does have some AQ JJ QQ TT, having KK blocks some combos, so made the call, but not sure if it was the right decision.

Please advice

Curious why call river jam? I know the feeling you when have kings and an ace shows up but what is villain calling you on the flop with and jamming river with? It is mainly just unlikely aces but mostly ace king and ace queen so kings are pretty much a bluff catcher at this point. When you think about his 4 bet calling range with the hands you mentioned with smaller pocket pairs they are probably not jamming it on the river as a bluff because of its decent showdown value against non pairs and you have the range and nut atvantage and connect with ace high boards. Since the range is so narrow there are not really any other non pair bluffs other than maybe king queen suited. Spr is smaller so you can justify a call but you would need really really good odds. ThatÂ’s just my thoughts though, in reality I probably would just do what you did too haha I have a bad habit of hero calling river

Thanks for your input.

You might want to post your hand here.

when he called 1/3 pot i would shut it down

Might have even wanted to check fold flop

any ace or 34s has u dominated

so you know u are hero calling going forward..it is what it is

When dude didnt fold to your 30 blind reraise that indicates a strong premium hand so he had a set or top pair when he called (most likely)

Don't post online 6max hands to the live cash forum. Post them here instead.

I would make the preflop four-bet smaller, no bigger than about 48 (24bb).

On the river, think about what the villain would be bluffing with. Basically the only flopped draws the villain can remotely have are 44 and 33 for gutshot wheel draws, and backdoor flush draws, things like KQs. There really are not many of these available. You would have to believe the villain was capable of bluffing with a hand like 77, 88, or T9s rather than hoping to get to showdown for cheap. The TT-QQ combos you list are strongly motivated not to jam the river, but to see a cheap showdown.

Absent a strong read, I would fold to the river jam and not give it much thought.

Oh, this was actually online? My bad then.

I think the combination of check the turn and shove river is suspicious there ... as in a great tack to try to get your stack, or double up I should say, indicative of him being there. The better the player V was the more I would suspect that. On the contrary, that tack as an actual bluff, instead of set up to look like a bluff, is not very frequent.

Of course the rule still applies that shoves are suspicious, overshoves early in the pot suspicious, and overshoves on river not as suspicious, especially when set up by a perfectly convincing, too convincing check on the turn. Headlong barreling increases the chance of that he's stuck on wide open bluffing in the pot, which he obviously wasn't with the turn check. Unless maniac, unless a player that's been abusing you ... or thinks he can ... he's got a line there that I don't like with the kings.

Feel via knowledge of the opponent is everything and I wasn't there.