Value betting the river | Daily Hand Quiz

Game type: 1/2 NL
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Your hand: 8♣8♠

Everyone folds to the cutoff who makes it $8 to go. You call with your 8′s and both blinds call. The flop brings:

A♠A♦7♥

The blinds check and the raiser bets $5 into a $24 pot. You call and the blinds call. The turn is J♥. The cutoff bets $5 again and again everyone calls. The river delivers you a nice 8♥. Everyone checks to you. What is the right amount to bet here?

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booty

Push and catch a stupid ace. It doens’t have to work very often to be the right play.

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anonymous

Why isn’t the pot $32 after the flop?

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Nad

What’s it matter, they got the pot right on the image and you get the idea. I bet low because I know I am good and I hope somebody might come overtop. Trip Aces probably wouldn’t have let the flush draw hit anyway and the flush wouldn’t have missed their value bet already.

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Ripp

you have position, everyone checked to you probably because their scared of the flush. a 35 bet looks like your trying to buy the pot, so a brave ace might call you. if you buy the pot, you get to keep your unknown image. if the blinds are trying to trap the consistant bettor with a flush, they might even come over top. in that case you will probably get paid off nicely.

preflop betting then betting less on the flop shows weekness, easy call on the flop, and still cheap enough on the turn.

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