Flopped straight, turn pairs board

No previous hands on this vil. I think next time I would raise a bit larger on the flop - maybe 13-14BB. After being raised on the flop I decided to re-eval on the turn. Overall a fairly weak line - played ok?

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4


Hero (BTN): 475.14 BB
SB: 142.5 BB (VPIP: 100.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 1)
BB: 100 BB (VPIP: 22.81, PFR: 13.45, 3Bet Preflop: 4.05, Hands: 176)
UTG: 104 BB (VPIP: 16.67, PFR: 12.50, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 24)
MP: 163.88 BB (VPIP: 30.00, PFR: 24.17, 3Bet Preflop: 6.90, Hands: 125)
CO: 20.92 BB (VPIP: 21.05, PFR: 10.53, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 19)


SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB


Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 7:spade: J:spade:


fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 3 BB, SB calls 2.5 BB, BB calls 2 BB


Flop: (9 BB, 3 players) 8:heart: 9:club: T:diamond:
SB bets 4.3 BB, fold, Hero raises to 10 BB, SB raises to 20 BB, Hero calls 10 BB


Turn: (49 BB, 2 players) 8:diamond:
SB checks, Hero checks


River: (49 BB, 2 players) K:heart:
SB bets 23.4 BB, Hero calls 23.4 BB

Your flop raise sizing seems very small to me? Barely over a min raise on a super coordinated board.

I would jack it up much harder than this, ~14-15bbs.

As played, I'm calling river for that price.

I agree with griffey24 on both counts.

I actually don't mind the small flop raise as we're IP, we don't have the nuts and there's no flushdraw. I could even fold river for that price, what does he like so much on the flop?

No flush draw and you hold blockers to his bluffs. Not to mention a lot of his open enders have pairs and wouldn't play this fast anyway.

The problem with folding the river is that he reps QJ only. I still may fold. Yeah a raise to 12 on the flop would be a bit more standard.

It's got to be close though. You beat 76 and he could possibly have 87/J8 and be thin betting trips on the river. I don't hate calling.

I don't see a range of hands that is continuing to 10bb that isn't continuing to at least 12-13bb.

If we don't like raising bigger, then I'd rather keep a hand this strong in my call down range on this board than practically min-raising imo. Especially when my call down range on this board has a lot of hands that might call a couple streets and fold river, it's nice to have some that will call a triple.

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Originally Posted by pocketfours

I actually don't mind the small flop raise as we're IP, we don't have the nuts and there's no flushdraw. I could even fold river for that price, what does he like so much on the flop?

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What does he like indeed. Question I was really asking was what does he like that he suddenly doesn't like when the turn pairs? It really does seem like he's repping QJ exactly