Considering a river bluff, no limit MTT

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Game type: $50 freezeout 6 max, PokerStars
Stage of tourney: Early
Your image: LAG
Opponent’s image: Average
Your hand: J♣8♥

The setup: You’re sitting on a nice stack early in this tournament when the following hand comes up.

You get J8o in the BB. A player limps, the SB completes and you check.

Everyone checks the flop:

3♠K♦Q♣

… and the turn: 6♣.

The river is the 3♦. You and the SB check. The button bets 1000.

The SB folds. What’s your play?

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Fanboy

No reason for you to raise. Early in the tournament, why put chips at risk when you can make him think he can do that all day and trap him with nuts. I’m aggressive, but that’s a fold from me.

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alekhine11

It really makes no sense in a limped pot.Nothing invested so far.Readless.Clueless.

What are you achieving with a bluff here? Clearly nothing but trouble.

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Tony G

If you check raise a blank on the river what are you trying to represent? A 3 might have bet the turn and would probably bet the river once it checked round for the second time.

Like the others have said mits early, no reason to try anything too fancy when you have such a deep stack and blinds are still low. Easy fold for me

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Ryan Montana

Easy fold. Next hand.

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Dan L

Really we have none of the necessary information that we need here. I think with no info it’s a pretty clear fold, but I think the reason they ask the question is that people are in general too tight on the river in NL tournaments, especially early. This should offer us some opportunities to steal. In this case, you need to think our opponent is likely to play something like K-x or Q-x this way, doesn’t understand showdown value and bets stuff like 88 or A-10 here, or is likely to bluff here. There are plenty of opponents who will make one or more of these mistakes at some point, but I think it’s a bit less likely in a checked through pot. If I had seen my opponent making a weird river bet in the past, or knew they were the type who often bluffs, I would consider raising here.

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samo2

Voted fold. Nothing invested, small pot, no need to get tricky here, especially with LAG image.

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