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[iggymcfly]

Was playing 1/2 NL with a $300 pot cap live tonight basically because I wanted something I could do out of the house while drinking. Anyway, got bored toward the end, started doing a lot of Shanghais, and ended up stuck $2,000. When I came home, I naturally wanted to chase my losses, but the only place I had money was Bodog, and they didn't have a single 5/10 PLO game going. With few choices left, I decided to 2-table the 10/20 NL and was up about $800 when this hand happened. What do you think of the way I played it?

Bodog 10/20 NLHE (5-handed)

Important stacks
Hero: $2,873
BB: $2,702

Hero is SB w/ 5 7 . I've been at the table for a few orbits, but I have no specific reads. If anything, the table's been on the aggressive side.

Pre-flop:
UTG limps, 1 fold, CO raises to $80, Hero calls, BB raises to $250, UTG folds, Button folds, Hero calls

Flop ($600): J 8 6
Hero checks, BB checks.

Turn ($600): 5
Hero checks, BB bets $350, Hero calls.

River ($1300): T
Hero checks, BB bets $850, Hero calls.

[DrawingDeadInDM]

What hands raising out of the blinds so heavily that you're ahead of on this river? AK?

You either ran into AK or top set--seems more like top set. I'm pushing the turn with my pair + OESD if I'm content to just call down on any river that's not an ace or a king(queen?), as I'll have 13 outs against a naked overpair(AA, KK, or QQ).

I don't think this is a situation where you *have* to call the river simply because you called the turn.

I really think that the 'hero call' phenomenon is getting out of hand--no offense to you, sir.

[RiscaRod]

I cant see you being ahead here too often to make this call profitable. You are by no means pot committed to call at the river and like you said you dont have too much of a read on the guy.

But I imagine he flips over AK and you take down the pot seeing as you posted it here.

[iggymcfly]

The bet sizing seemed kind of weird to me. The way he bet more with relation to size of the pot on the river than he did on the turn, but still never made a large pot-sized bet like he really wanted to get paid made me think that either the river improved him or he was bluffing. I didn't see something like Q9 or JT being a very likely reraising hand preflop, so I thought a bluff seemed pretty likely. Honestly, if he bets $650 on the river, I'm pretty sure I would have folded, but this seemed suspicious enough that I figured there was at least a 1 in 3 chance he was bluffing.

[Bubba83]

Why don't we just fold preflop with this hand? Being out of position with this type of hand sucks.

[iggymcfly]

"We" like to play a ton of hands preflop. Because "we" are a huge LAG-fish when it comes to NL. Folding suited gappers PF doesn't even occur to us.

Anyway, villian showed K Q , so by results it was obviously a great call. I'm much less in the mood for a brag post after getting hammered in the PLO games tonight though.