Top pair on coordinated board facing all in river shove

DailyHandQuiz

Game type: Full Tilt Poker 1k Monday
Stage of tourney: Early
Your image: Fairly quiet
Opponent’s image: Nothing remarkable
Your hand: K♣Q♣

This is part two of a quiz we began on Friday. Check out part one.

In part one of this quiz, we got up to the turn play in this hand. To recap: You and the CO called a 3x raise from an EP raiser. You flopped top pair and a straight draw and check-called a c-bet from the raiser, as did the CO. You then check-called a pretty strong second barrel from the EP raiser that chased the CO out of the hand. Now you’re on the river with a board of:

J♥Q♥T♠ 2♣7♠

You check and the villain fires a third bullet, moving all in.

What’s your play?

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6 COMMENTS (Jump to comment form)

DHQ Staff

When you call the turn on this board, which I’m not a huge fan of, you’re basically forced to call the river. There are so many possible draws you could be on and you’ve played the hand so weakly that I imagine the raiser is bluffing with a ton of hands and probably value-betting a bit smaller with monsters to induce calls from exactly the sort of hand that you’re holding.

The fact that he’s set himself up for a pot-sized all in on the river is a little disconcerting, but I think you sealed your fate on the turn here and have to strongly consider a call

What actually happened: You called and were shown Ac Th for a pair of tens.

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_CityBorn_

i voted fold, despite feeling exactly what the staff was saying about the size of the bet. The only thing is the fact that you called both the flop and the turn in a multi-way pot could lead the villain to believe that you were strong enough to make this call. So even with ak or a set theyd figure you to call the river. I just think we never improved and were probably behind to begin with, and the river bet is too much of my remaining stack, leaving me in a bad position when i lose this hand more often then winning it…..

Without a read on our opponent, i think we have to give him credit here for a hand.

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Runefs

I preferre to put unknowns in the tight category. I have a hard time believing a tight player raising to 3x with XT/XJ and betting bottom pair twice out of position eventho our weak line might be a draw.
With no read on my opp, I’d put him on something like AQ or AK in this sit since both would fit his play well.
with that said I like the staff comment but personnaly I’d rather come back later. I fold

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Bert

very true the staff comment, if u called the turn u shud call the river, the 7 changed nothing unless he had 7 7. But i would have folded earlier to the 2nd barrel, i would have to give him credit firing 2 barrels into 2 ppl on a danger board. Turned out he was a donk

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livohim

call, but its a close one. The only reason I would call is because there is way too much money in the pot. Even though I am not sure if I would call that second bullet on the turn… Wery tought desition.

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Loki

You got yourself into this mess by check-calling. Terrible. You should have raised on the flop.
Simply looking at the river, this is a fold. Look at the raiser’s betting pattern.
1) EARLY Raise
2) Bet
3) Bet
4) All-in.
The next time you passively donk off chips like that the raiser is going to flip KK’s or a set over and you are going to hurt big time. I make most of my money off of people who are willing to call continuous bets with top pair.

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