Why can't he have these, he has Q5 in his hand ffs
Blockers.
?? the only blockers known are whats on the board, still plenty combinations that beat himmy point is he is only calling a raise with a boat and therefore your beat, so whats the point of raising.
If that was the case we could just bluff for fun in PLO and make incred money
elaborate?
? he would have to be a grade A donkey to call a raise on any paired board without a boat, even if it is double paired.....just find raising here to be absolutely pointless. yes i would be confident i was ahead, but not 100% sure
He's obviously not going to call but he may suss out that we can't call without a boat either and stick one in our eye.
Then if we're really really good we call anyway because we know he's good enough to know that we're good enough to deduce that he hasn't got a boat.
Basically we've got a good hand that we're bluffing with but in a good way if we can turn that bluff in to a hero call.
If we raise river then fold to a worse hand we're a donkey.
If we're not good enough to figure several steps ahead and decide to raise to induce a bluff (I include myself here btw) then yes there is no point raising the river.
Yeah vs this isnt a STANDARD river bet, I would 100% just call a lot of the time, but I'm sure raising here vs his actual range is +EV.
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