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1-2 no limit, live cash game. Villain is well known to me; he’s a very good aggressive player with a large preflop playing range…any suited ace, connector, big cards type. We each have a lot of respect for the other and generally avoid being in a hand together. Both players are cautious around the other cuz the styles are similar, and both are the table big stacks, about 400-500 each 1 hour into a new table with 200 max buy in.
Villain BB, Hero seat 7 after button. Hero has 8d9d and raises to 15$. Fold around to Villain who calls, plus chronic calling station in seat 5 after button. Flop 7c8h9h. Villain bets 20 into 47$ pot, calling station folds. Hero tanks then reraises to 60. Villain tanks then calls. Turn is Qs. Villain check hero check. River As. Villain bets $40 into $162 (after rake) pot. Action???
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I think I am going to call right here. Villain has potential to play Ace-rag, so he could have 2 pair here.
I put Villain on Ah7h. Hero got rivered (or is that just my luck?).
Always nice to have a chronic calling station, though. Great way to make some money.
Crying call. He has a better two pair. The only hand I expect to see here that I beat is any Ace-Ten.
I say call. I bet he has Ax, but the two pair is good, butthen pull out your 9mm, point at the dude. If he wins, shoot him. If you win, holster your weapon and continue playing.
I believe Villian is trying to get you to fold. $162 is a nice pot and $47 is about 1/4 that. IMHO you have at least 44% of winning the hand from what I think…so go for it. Reraise and put his ass to the test.
I would call here. He is a known regular to the Hero. I don’t think he would try to put a move on.
I was the first person to vote for reraise so I’m with Panndy here…
If the villian is as good a player as the background makes him out to be, he knows the value of switching his play. He probably has air on this occasion but is relying on the fact hero believes he will have something to win the pot.
A call is a weak move and doesn’t give you any chance of winning the pot imo. A fold would be an absolute disaster at this point.
If the hero calls because he believes the villian has a better hand and doesn’t want to put too much more in the pot, he may as well just fold.
A reraise puts you back in control though. If the villian has nothing, he will likely call or fold and you take the pot. If he has a superior hand, you’ve paid a little bit extra to extract a lot of information.
There’s only one option for me and it means the hero has to reraise.
It’s a easy call on the river with the weak bet. With a draw heavy board like that I don’t see many hands that we can raise the river to get value from. I think the villain would have played a hand like Ah 10h, QhJh, 9-10 or other drawing hands more aggressively.
The problem I have with this hand is the check on the turn. I like defining my hand here and making the river an easier play. Given the way it’s played there’s not too many hands we can raise to get value. He’s almost always calling our raise with a better hand and folding anything weaker.
My guess is that villain has Ah9.
I think a raise here only gets called by a better hand. If he is bluffing, we won’t extract any money but will win anyway with a call at showdown.
wow… I agree with Geoff, twice! Maybe I need to go back to the books.
I put Villain on AT. He tanked because of the up and down straight draw and concern that hero was already made.