i dont know anything about the opponent, but in general, i keep putting in lots of bets on turns like this and they keep showing up with hands that beat me.

Poker Stars
Limit Holdem Ring game
Limit: $1/$2
5 players
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Pre-flop: (5 players) Hero is Button with 8 K
2 folds, Hero raises, SB folds, BB calls.

Flop: 8 6 J (4.5SB, 2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets, BB calls.

Turn: K (3.25BB, 2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets, BB raises, Hero 3-bets, BB caps, Hero calls.

River: 7 (11.25BB, 2 players)
BB bets, Hero calls.

Results:
Final pot: 13.25BB

I'm rusty with LHE, but I kind of like calling the turn then raising a safe river if I think he's pretty aggro or just calling if he's somewhat nitty.

hmmmm. i don't like that line.

i probably play this hand the exact same.

i only worried about kj and small sets here, right?

I play it exactly as you did.


--CM

Pretty standard. He can have worse two pairs here...or even a spewy Khxh.

I don't see any other way to play it.

Hi CM.

wtf is a safe river? or more directly, which cards are actually scary for us?


We cap the turn here, he can't 5-bet us. Once he leads the river, we have enough information to know that putting in more action is spewing. If he checks the river, we get a bet in. It's the same as waiting to raise the river, but we lose an extra bet when/if he 3-bets us, and sometimes, we lose an extra bet when some random card we think is scary comes off, and we puss out and don't raise.