Originally Posted by Genitruc

I think raising this river would be suicidal unless villain is very capable of laying down a hand.

Originally Posted by Genitruc

I wouldn't raise the flop in a million years.

I like how you played it.

I give lots of consideration to folding the river though since this is Ad that hit top pair a whole lot.

Originally Posted by aislephive

Raising the flop definitely has a lot of merit IMO. I don't like blindly calling down here since our hand is so vulnerable. I'd raise the flop to $45 ish, fold to a push. Usually he folds and when he has a better hand like A7/88 he is going to play it defensively after we raise him and can get a cheap showdown.

Originally Posted by aislephive

Raising the flop definitely has a lot of merit IMO. I don't like blindly calling down here since our hand is so vulnerable. I'd raise the flop to $45 ish, fold to a push. Usually he folds and when he has a better hand like A7/88 he is going to play it defensively after we raise him and can get a cheap showdown.

Originally Posted by Ravageur

I think the river decision is the most interesting (i like calling flop and turn but i guess raising at some point is ok).

I think most people are discounting the number of times villain has 88-JJ here and would fold if we push river and may even fold Adxd. It would help if we had some pf stats on him. Anyway, this needs to be countered by the times he has 5d6d or 78s/79s etc and there's no value in raising. Basically, I can't put him on any 'big hand' by the river and his river bet certainly seems blockish (i doubt he's good enough for it to be a bluffinducer, although that doesn't mean he's always folding to a raise).

When I first saw the hand I thought 'meh standard call' but now I think raising the river could be pretty sexy.