Raised at the river and he should only have one better hand

Villain is 24/10/1.7

I don't have any recollection of him getting out of hand. Is this river an easy call? He thought for a bit before making the raise.

Texas Hold'em $1-$2 NL (real money), hand #P4-62115422-487
Table fetrand's HE, 3 Mar 2008 6:58 PM ET

Seat 1: ludo 59 ($71.95 in chips)
Seat 2: NCassady ($103.05 in chips)
Seat 3: Duckfighterz ($173.40 in chips)
Seat 4: rejic ($154.85 in chips)
Seat 8: Galapogos [ 7,A ] ($105.15 in chips)
Seat 9: Charli010 ($90.35 in chips)

Antes/Blinds
Galapogos posts blind ($0.50), Charli010 posts blind ($1).

Pre-Flop
ludo 59 folds, NCassady calls $1, Duckfighterz folds, rejic calls $1, Galapogos calls $0.50, Charli010 checks.

Flop [board cards 7,K,A ]
Galapogos bets $3, Charli010 folds, NCassady calls $3, rejic calls $3.

Turn [board cards 7,K,A,4 ]
Galapogos bets $10, NCassady calls $10, rejic folds.

River [board cards 7,K,A,4,3 ]
Galapogos bets $20, NCassady bets $62, Galapogos calls $42

Fold because he has 65 of spades!!!

Haha just joking. You have to call this.

The title of the thread is the reason why you have to call.

wtf? 5s6s? AA/KK?

eh call. and bet the turn harder.

That's a crying call, I guess. Very curious what he had though.

Originally Posted by dalecooper

That's a crying call, I guess. Very curious what he had though.

JL was right, he had 56 spades. I honestly am still not sure this should be a call. I'm up against a very straight forward uncreative nittish villain. I've shown a lot of strength in this hand so far and no one at this level bluffs the river. Plus, this guy's too weak to raise a crappier two pair he picked up on the river. I absolutely knew he had that hand too when he raised, but I just couldn't get myself to fold when I could only put him on one hand that beat me.

Maybe I'm just being a bitch about losing.

My first thought was a shortstacked fish who hit a weaker 2 pair.

I would fold this pretty quick. All types of weird slowplayed and backdoor stuff comes up in these spots. No way he raises for value worse.

Originally Posted by SmackinYaUp

My first thought was a shortstacked fish who hit a weaker 2 pair.

For some reason Ongame calls it 1-2NL but it is actually 100NL and we're both full-stacked.

Originally Posted by Galapogos

Originally Posted by dalecooper

That's a crying call, I guess. Very curious what he had though.

JL was right, he had 56 spades. I honestly am still not sure this should be a call. I'm up against a very straight forward uncreative nittish villain. I've shown a lot of strength in this hand so far and no one at this level bluffs the river. Plus, this guy's too weak to raise a crappier two pair he picked up on the river. I absolutely knew he had that hand too when he raised, but I just couldn't get myself to fold when I could only put him on one hand that beat me.

Maybe I'm just being a bitch about losing.

Despite all that & knowing the outcome, I'm OK with the call. I think even weak, uncreative nits might give you a little value raise with A3 or A4 on that river at times. I think you're beat a lot here, but not so definitely beat that it's a clear fold.

i've found that when you are quite sure that they have the one hand that they 'have to have', they pretty much always have it.

that said, i prob call this river but i'm a taggfish

Originally Posted by Lukie

that said, i prob call this river but i'm a taggfish

Hmmm, this is a disturbing revelation as much of my game was constructed off your old strategy posts.