River Raise- Valuable or Giving Villian the 4th Chance at the Right Move?

**the alex** · 07-21-2006

1st hand of a Turbo. I'm loving thse things. I always hated them, but they're a lot of fun. They like what regular SnG used to be- where a bunch of people overbet early, go down, and you can play poker even when you're the short stack.

I'll tell you guys now that I just called because I've been coming from behind to demolish these things late, so I'm just wondering what you do here. Personally, I was only playing this hand for implied LARGE hand value, but the texture of this board slowed me down. The value of an early lead in these are just so small that the reward for early aggression is almost non-existent to me.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20 (10 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

saw flop|saw showdown

Button (t1500)
SB (t1500)
BB (t1500)
UTG (t1500)
UTG+1 (t1500)
UTG+2 (t1500)
MP1 (t1500)
MP2 (t1500)
MP3 (t1500)
Hero (t1500)

Preflop: Hero is CO with T

, J

.
3 folds, MP1 calls t20, MP2 calls t20, 1 fold, Hero calls t20, 1 fold, SB completes, BB checks.

Flop: (t100) A

, T

, K

(5 players)
SB checks, BB checks, MP1 bets t60, MP2 calls t60, Hero calls t60, SB folds, BB folds.

Turn: (t280) T

(3 players)
MP1 bets t60, MP2 folds, Hero raises to t200, MP1 calls t140.

River: (t680) 7

(2 players)
MP1 bets t80, Hero __________ ???

What if the flop was a rainbow with only one paint?

**xxdemexx** · 07-21-2006

Off topic...Your AV is horrible..

This guy looks comfortable .. my gut instinct is to call.. I'm not putting down for 80. If you raise him and he calls with any number of drawing hands which beat you (you lose more money) or folds if hes trying it on (you win the same money).

Your smack bang in the middle of value with the preflop profile..

**the alex** · 07-21-2006

Originally Posted by xxdemexx

Off topic...Your AV is horrible...

I came across this pic and it scared the hell out of me, but I couldn't look away. Had to add it for a bit. I've never had a poker player in my avatar, so I figured I'll be cliche for a couple of weeks.

**OrionPro** · 07-21-2006

It's not animated which is great, hopefully he'll keep it.

**davidab157** · 07-21-2006

i reckon you played that fine, normally i'd do the same. the thing that confuses me is his bet of 80 into a 600 pot. what was the buy-in to the sng? this is a huge tell of a fish (a pointless bet, if he has the best hand and you call he makes 80 from it). In a low-buyin sng i would raise this guy as a bet that small would usually mean top pair (if that). to be honest i reckon that mp1 was on a medium ace (assuming we're at low level buy-ins).

What did he have?

**the alex** · 07-21-2006

It was just a $6.50. Anyone who bets like this is a dipshit, no matter what the buyin. It was the first hand. This could be a $215 SnG and all that'd mean is that the person had $215 in their PS account.

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