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Playing a live 1.2 nl game today. Player A is in early position, has been playing most pots, is loose passive and is giving away money. He has about $140 left. Player B is on the button, has been playing moderately tight, moderately aggressive. He is a dealer who is somewhat decent (which is unusual cause most dealers I have played with are usually either awful or pretty good). He has about $280 in front of him. I am 3 off the button, have about $330 in front and have been playing pretty agriessive.To the hand, player A limps, I raise to $12 with 10 J, Player B reraises to $24 total, so essentially a min raise. Player A calls, I call. Pot $71 after rake.Flop JJK with two spades. Player A checks, I decide to lead out for $35, both players A and B call. Turn J. Player A checks, I have the mortal nuts and decide to bet weak hoping for calls and bet $40, player B calls, Player A raises all in to $81 total. I decide to just smooth call to ensure I get the $41 extra from Player B in the pot.River 4. Now Player B has about $120 left. The question is how much to bet? The reason I ask is given that this player is decent and given that Player A check raised all in when the 3rd J hit, he might put player A on the J and know there is no value in the pot to calling (or he might put me on the J). On the flip side I am convinced he has at least a K, possibly AA. Given this how much should I bet to try to get value out of the river given that he knows that he probably is a long shot to win the main pot?Thanks in advance.

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Bet it all. there's $420 in the pot, plus your $120 bet. He'll be getting 4.5:1 to call. I think he goes broke with the second or third nuts that you put him on here.

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The correct play is to fold face up and say you were worried about your kicker.You will get mad action after that.
+1I was going to say fold preflop, but I guess this advice is a close second.155 posts and still looking for hand advice in general? How sad.
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Playing a live 1.2 nl game today. Player A is in early position, has been playing most pots, is loose passive and is giving away money. He has about $140 left. Player B is on the button, has been playing moderately tight, moderately aggressive. He is a dealer who is somewhat decent (which is unusual cause most dealers I have played with are usually either awful or pretty good). He has about $280 in front of him. I am 3 off the button, have about $330 in front and have been playing pretty agriessive.To the hand, player A limps, I raise to $12 with 10 J, Player B reraises to $24 total, so essentially a min raise. Player A calls, I call. Pot $71 after rake.Flop JJK with two spades. Player A checks, I decide to lead out for $35, both players A and B call. Turn J. Player A checks, I have the mortal nuts and decide to bet weak hoping for calls and bet $40, player B calls, Player A raises all in to $81 total. I decide to just smooth call to ensure I get the $41 extra from Player B in the pot.River 4. Now Player B has about $120 left. The question is how much to bet? The reason I ask is given that this player is decent and given that Player A check raised all in when the 3rd J hit, he might put player A on the J and know there is no value in the pot to calling (or he might put me on the J). On the flip side I am convinced he has at least a K, possibly AA. Given this how much should I bet to try to get value out of the river given that he knows that he probably is a long shot to win the main pot?Thanks in advance.
There's enough in the pot that he has to call off everything if he has a hand at all.
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I shove, he's put so much into the pot that he has to call with a K or AA. If he is willing to pay off a value bet of 50-60 he will call your shove also. He can't be on any sort of draw with 3 J's out there and action.

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I shove, he's put so much into the pot that he has to call with a K or AA. If he is willing to pay off a value bet of 50-60 he will call your shove also. He can't be on any sort of draw with 3 J's out there and action.
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He is a dealer who is somewhat decent. To the hand, player A limps, I raise to $12 with 10 J, Player B reraises to $24 total, so essentially a min raise.
Even a decent player would never min raise here regardless of his holdings.
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as you should be with those eyes and needle sharp whiskers
He just looks so, so calm. So calculating. He's a cold-blooded black plastic buidling block killer. I can tell.
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Thanks for the advice guys, I ended up putting in the $120. He ultimately mucked AK there, figuring that one of the two of us had the J and at the very best was chopping. Long term I think you all are right that the $120 is the best play, but I guess against this guy $50 or $60 would have worked.

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