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dalecooper
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05-31-2005, 02:35 PM
Post subject: Do you like this call or not?
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 3,107
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Here's the situation, in broad outlines. I'm on the button in 6max and raise 3xBB with A8. One caller from the big blind.
The flop is 554. He checks, I make a standard continuation bet, he calls.
The turn is a jack. He checks, I check behind.
The river is an 8 giving me second pair plus the 5s. He bets the pot, I call.
Do you like this call, or not? My logic was this: with my pretty standard line (raise pre-flop, continuation bet, then a check showing weakness on the turn) he knows (or thinks) that he can steal the pot from me with a forceful bet on the end. He also may think that I think he is slowplaying the trip 5s, although I do not in fact think this. The particular size of the bet on the end - pot-sized - led me to believe he did not have a 5, and his check on the turn led me to believe he did not have a jack, either.
So that was my thinking, and why I called. What do you think? I will tell you the outcome in a bit.
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Theeggman
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Flush
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: SoCal
Posts: 363
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If it were me I would think 1) he was slow-playing the 5. 2) He took a chance playing 76s for a 3xBB raise, or 3) He hit his 2pr with an 8 on the river just like you. I call to find out. Tough one tho.
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I'll be a rootin' tootin' shootin' damn fool, protectin' my chips.
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mgobluefb
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Straight
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 172
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Tough decision: Many players slowplaying the trips will make this play, so I would fold.
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dalecooper
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 3,107
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The outcome: he had garbage (Q9 I think) and was bluffing.
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daluchy
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Full House
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 691
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That looks like how I'd slowplay trips or I guess maybe a 4 of a kind...only hand that would come to mind to still play after a 3x BB raise.
Was the Q9 they even suited & the flop give him a flush draw?
I'd probably make the call just for information to get a read on the guy for later, especially with chips invested pre-flop and flop already and a semi-decent hand.
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pulling a courtiebee pŏŏl-ĭng ā kôrt-ē-bē (verb phrase):
1. overvaluing mid pocket pairs
2. knowing you should fold, but donkishly calling or raising anyway
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