Baby boat facing river raise, no limit cash game

DailyHandQuiz

Game type: .50/1 No Limit Cash, Carbon Poker
Your image: Aggressive
Opponent’s image: Tight
Your hand: 6♣7♣

The setup: You’ve played a bunch of hands so far this session but haven’t been able to build much of a stack with your aggressive play. In this hand you’re against a fairly tight opponent that you haven’t really had any confrontations with yet.

This hand you raise in MP with 76 suited. You get two callers. You flop two pair:

9♣7♠6♦

After one check, you bet $7. You get one fold and and then a raise to $21. You call the raise. The turn is the 8♥. You check and your opponent checks. The river is the 7♦.

You bet $33 and your opponent, who has you covered, raises you all in. What’s your play?

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black fair

Note the description doesn’t seem to make sense for this question:

“After one check, you bet $7. You get one fold and and then a raise to $21″

With three players this would indicate a check-raise. But the villian is on the button so this is not possible.

But anyway.

Call.

See Zeebo’s theorem.

It sure does look like he might have a bigger boat. He check-raised the flop, slowed down when four to a straight hit, then went aggressive again when the board paired.

There are a few hands we beat our opponent might play like this as well. He could have sixes. Not a very likely holding but possible.

He might’ve hit the straight. The turn action might support that theory – he’s a tight player, doesn’t want to fold you out so is trying to trap, but the flop action and river action don’t fit that very well. Raising a gut-shot straight draw and raise-shoving for value a straight on a paired board? That doesn’t seem to fit his image to me.

So it seems like the odds are he has a boat. And the chances are its a bigger boat. We should probably fold.

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catcher

Hands that make sense given the action would be TT, 99 and 88. I really wish that there was a flush out, but given the price I probably can’t make myself to lay it down. Crying call.

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Bert

88 makes sense

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Joel S.

No question this is a calling situation. You started with $75, raised PF – to let’s say $2. You called a raise for $21 ($23 in total), and you bet out on the river for $33 ($56). You have $19 left and your opponent has pushed into you? Are you kidding? You are a short stack and this is the situation you live for. $19 call to win a $150+ pot? Why is this even a quiz? If you’re wrong, you’re wrong, but for those odds on a made hand, why would you even consider laying this down? Moreover, even if you have the straight (let’s say you have a naked ten), I think this is an easy call. Perhaps I’m a bit looser than most, but this is a cash game, and I’m assuming you’re not in over your head (bankroll-wise), so if you’re wrong, reload and move on; consider this a cooler.

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Gamblor Reply:
August 27th, 2009 at 7:08 am

dickhead, it means he has 75 left, so your getting 2:1. still a good price, but not 8:1 as you said.

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samo2

Voted call. Since hero is holding 76, I’ll discard the v holding 77 and 66. So I’m thinking 10-10, 9-9, 9-7. Overbetting the pot on the flop defends the 10-10 and 9-7. Imo would not overbet with top set here. If v held 88, don’t believe they would check the turn with 4 to a straight. Tough call, but let’s hope they became enamored with a straight.

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Anonymous

Joel, You have $75 behind, not $75 when the hand begins. After your bet on the river, you still have $75 left. Still good odds, but not much you are beating against a tight player.

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