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Playing at dee tea dee the other night and playing at a pretty tough 1/2 game with Bedi, Mitch, Thewy and a few local regs.

Pretty early on and no real reads on villain apart from he had been playing very abc and pretty tight.

Folded to me in MP and raise to 10 with  Ks Kh and pick up 3 callers including button and both blinds.

Flop  Qs 9h 4s, both blinds check and I lead for 30.

BB calls.

Turn is  3d, bb checks, I bet 55, he calls.

River  2s, bb checks.

Action on me, pot is around 210 and ive around 300 left, villain playing a remaining stack of about 160.

Whats my play?

Check

this

Great answer - y?

Any particular reason?

quite easy he could have AQ QK 10J QJ but if you bet you might aswell make it £160 cos he is not going to call £120-£130 he is going to get all his chips in the pot,  £210 is nice for early start, the  flush has hit so you don't know now your winning the hand so thats why i would check

I think this is a standard only getting called by better hands spot, isn't it? What can he have that either a) is better than you but will fold or b) is worse than you but will still call a bet?

 Aspades Xs,  Ts Js , 5s 6s,  9c 9d,  4c 4c all possible hands villian might call with pre

Does As Xs check the river to me?
Surely JsTs check raises the flop or tries to get it in at some point?
Any set surely doesnt check call 2 streets?

All sets will raise on flop or turn so I think u can disclose sets
Ax spades might raise on flop
Meh I still shove doubt tight abc rocks will be check calling all the way through with 2 pair or a set
And checks when made flush on river

But I think checking is ok also

Also I would get a pic and autograph of local celeb mitch

With Villain only having less than a pot sized bet I'd expect him to lead a flush here and to have raised you on flop or turn if you were beat already so I'm valuebetting here sometimes but dependent on opponent obv

AQ?

Its so opponent dependent though. Against a lot of opponents you're going to check quickly, against others I'd be making a bet.

Hi stack size makes it awkward to bet/fold this spot so I probably check behind.

That's about the only possibility, but it's a pretty terrifying board for TPTK.

would fit the check/call, check/call, check and don't think villain pays our bet off on the river!

Who was the villain?

Seat 5 or 6.  Cant remember if there was someone between you and him or not.

Don't think Mitch had joined us by then

Had an interesting hand against Mitch last night.

We managed to get into a 250 big blind pot yesterday pre yesterday. Hands were top quality.

sooooooooooooooo

Probably Mitch's food between you both.


As for the hand, it has to be a check as surely you're losing less value from the times you miss a value bet (and get a call), than the amount you are losing from the times you're facing a better hand?

+1

to be fair Boshi probably limps pre. And folds if he's check raised on the flop

Open fold pre, ldo.

oi only I have the skill to pull that off!  ;tk;

You've taken it to the next level.  Raise pre, then open fold on the flop.  That's what I aspire to.

You've got to make sure you are balanced boshi. One day you will get it and NL100 will respect you, till then just keep on dreaming.

It was a 400BB+ pot actually. I snapped with a far superior hand and he got there.

so sick.

I meant 250 big blinds each

You shoudl have known the button had folded 10s

But i had you on 5 or 6 high so had to go with my read.

Knew my 10 high was good enough to get it in with. Just had one of those outerbody feelings.

Plus i had a 3 with it, so had a blocker to you making a straight.

10 3 is actually the nuts in Leicester pity your from scummy Derby

50p from each of you for the leicester and derby badbeat stories

Was villain the guy in his thirties with the hat on? If so then betting this river is 100% a bluff. From playing a few weeks with him, he is probably the tightest, most scared money at the table by a long way.
Half potting the turn is probably a mistake.
-seat 4

Listen to this guy. He calls with 4 high flush draws and is right.