by Felonius_Monk » Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:41 pm
I completely disagree with anyone who doesn't think this was played well against a fairly unknown opponent. Folding the river against almost anyone at this level is abysmal; call.
I don't like half-potting it when the board pairs unless you do stuff like this a lot when you have 88xx here. It might be worth it as a mixing-it-up play, for metagame reasons more than anything, if you face these guys a lot and play these tables regularly.
SC, betting the river is very bad, given the play before. You will likely only get called by better hands, and will force out a LOT of folks here who'll bluff in these sort of games. IMO, you need to SERIOUSLY re-evaluate your river play if betting seems a good move here, that looks very NL-ish to me. I think the idea of "1/2 pot bet regardless what you have" on the river seems counter-intuitive to me - why not full pot? Or check? Being so inflexible makes no sense, other than to make your decisions less complex, whilst (IMO) losing money in spots like this when a check-call is clearly the best move against ANY holding opponent has.
Basically, I don't like any line other than the one played by GLR, with the very obvious call on river given no read on opponent.
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