Top pair facing a 24k bet on the river, high stakes cash game

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Game type: 300/600 NL hold’em cash game, heads up
Your image: Tricky and aggressive
Misc notes: This hand occurs near the end of a session where you’re up almost 100k on your opponent.
Your hand: Q♣T♦

This hand comes from actual game play at the 300/600 NL game on Full Tilt between online pros Patrik Antonius and Brian Townsend. You will be standing in for Townsend

The Setup: You’re nearing the hour mark in this session when the following hand comes up. You raise to 1800 with Q 10 preflop and Antonius calls. The flop comes a solid-looking:

5♦T♠2♦

Antonius checks, you bet 3100, and he check raises you to 10,200 total. You call and the turn comes the 9♥. Antonius checks again, and you check behind. The river comes a relative blank with the 6♣, making an open ended for 34 but not much else.

Now Antonius springs to life and bets right about pot – $24,000. You’ve been doing well this session and you’re up about 100k at this point less than an hour in to the match. What’s your play?

8 COMMENTS (Jump to comment form)

John B.

I’d re-raise and put him all in. If he check-raised all-in there, I may have folded. That bet just smelt too fishy.

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Anonymous

The river six also makes a straight for 7-8.

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Zot95

To me, an easy call.

I hate a raise here. It’s the proverbial case where you’re getting called only by hands that beat you. Granted, the villain has very much played this like a busted draw… but if you raise he folds and you take down $48k and if you call you win and take down $48k.

On the flip side, folding is too weak. There are chances that you are facing trips or an overpair, but I think your odds are plenty good here.

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Kevin

Its a call here. On that board and with your stack i dont think folding is the right move.

The problem with raising here is you have a chip lead..why risk throwing away more chips (he could have slowplayed a two pair or set who knows). Calling gives you an even more dominating stack, and shows that your a disciplined solid player. Raising here is fine if you really think he is trying to steal the pot…but its just to risky..why risk paying off a better hand.

The thing with raising is.. if his river bet is indeed fishy then he wont pay your raise off..you risk a big raise but wont get payed off.

The only hand that will he would call a raise with is a better one. There is no way he would call on a lower pair….and if he did have lower pair i dont see him making the plays he did.

Call it down.. easy play. If you want to play this hand more agressively raise on the turn.

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chris

i saw the 7-8, but it seemed a little much to worry about…

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beav

easy call

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stickupkid84

easy call?? this isn’t some low limit weekend player.. It is patrick antonius. This bet would scare the hell out of me, by calling his reraise on the flop he knows you most likely have a hand like A10,K10, J10 ect.. Then he value bets the river, knowing that it is more likely that you have a 10 than a draw. I would probably call knowing that he is thinking that his value bet would have this affect on me. But in no way is this a easy call.

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Bob

lol this is an easy call..
didnt take much time to think aobut it.

Either patrick had a draw/nothing or had a big hand and Patrick would have 3bet if he had a decent hand.
He either has a 555, 222 or 52 if he has us beat. Maybe 10 6 and a small possibility of KT other than that we win

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