PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $1.00 BB (5 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: Bet The Pot)

UTG ($99.55)
MP ($21.05)
Button ($18.30)
SB ($43.45)
Hero ($106.20)

Preflop: Hero is BB with [9s], [Js].
3 folds, SB raises to $2, Hero calls $1.

Flop: ($4) [8c], [Tc], [2h] (2 players)
SB bets $1, Hero raises to $5, SB calls $4.

Turn: ($14) [Ad] (2 players)
SB bets $3, Hero raises to $16, SB calls $13.

River: ($46) [3d] (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $21, SB folds.

Final Pot: $67

I think this is good cause his weak leads seems to suggest he wants a cheap cards suggesting either a draw or a really weak hand that he might fold on the river. You're river bet is good as it only has to work 1/3 of the time...but my question is....


How do you play it if he just checks to you on the turn? Do you still pot the turn and 1/2 pot the river? I ask because whenever I try stuff like this, I seem to get chased down by some passive check-caller who has just TP on the flop(the ace didn't even help/scare him). It might be a difference in sites, but on Paradise, where I play, I find an abundance of passive callers/trappers that I have removed some of this type of aggression and play my hands more str8 up. It is read dependant, but once I identify an opponent as this type of loose slowplaying passive fool, I just wait for cards and make him pay, but every one in a while I fallback on my more agressive game and he gets me....argh...

Any thoughts on this? Would you have the same confidence in your read if he was check-calling as opposed to weak-lead/calling?

i dont know the exact % of time that im getting called here too because there are a number of times he is going to check call me with second pair and then im just writing the river bet off as a payment for a crazy image.

I just lead the river again for the times that he could have flush draw, im not really thinking that he always had a flush draw in this spot. And i certainly dont bluff a lot considering especially at six max, people like to call a lot. Its just when i find myself on the river after building a decent pot, I think this size of bet is the cheapest I can get away with to steal the pot.

If he was check/ calling, I would probably play it the same way. I dont bluff the turn alot, it always depends on the texture of the board, and this one is nice because the scare ace on the turn means im gonna keep firing away and he's out of position so many favorable things goign my way.

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