NL25, flush, standard call on the river?

[terencetsao]

Button is running 30/11/1
dont know if i should call the river or not

Poker Stars
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.10/$0.25
5 players
Converter (http://www.neildewhurst.com/hand-converter)

Stack sizes:
UTG: $25.10
Hero: $25.20
Button: $16.20
SB: $23.95
BB: $38.15

Pre-flop: (5 players) Hero is CO with T/images/graemlins/diamond.gif K/images/graemlins/diamond.gif
UTG folds, <font color="#cc0000">Hero raises to $0.75</font>, Button calls, SB folds, BB calls.

Flop: J/images/graemlins/diamond.gif J/images/graemlins/heart.gif 2/images/graemlins/spade.gif ($2.35, 3 players)
BB checks, <font color="#cc0000">Hero bets $1.5</font>, Button calls, BB folds.

Turn: 7/images/graemlins/diamond.gif ($5.35, 2 players)
Hero checks, <font color="#cc0000">Button bets $1</font>, Hero calls.

River: A/images/graemlins/diamond.gif ($7.35, 2 players)
Hero checks, <font color="#cc0000">Button is all-in $12.95</font>,

Results:
Final pot: $33.25

[1tripz1]

When you call the turn im curious for what card you would want on the river that would be better?

[bsball8806]

A diamond, but definitely not the A, K, or Q of diamonds. Assuming BTN has been c/c, betting with a jack the entire time, I see QJ, KJ, and AJ as his most likely other cards. I agree that this is a very good card for our hand, but I'd MUCH prefer to see a 4 of diamonds or another low card that is unlikely to fill our villan up.

That being said, why do we check the river? Intending to c/f? A cheap showdown? I really don't like the river check here.

[1tripz1]

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A diamond, but definitely not the A, K, or Q of diamonds. Assuming BTN has been c/c, betting with a jack the entire time, I see QJ, KJ, and AJ as his most likely other cards. I agree that this is a very good card for our hand, but I'd MUCH prefer to see a 4 of diamonds or another low card that is unlikely to fill our villan up.

That being said, why do we check the river? Intending to c/f? A cheap showdown? I really don't like the river check here.

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In that case, if we think we have about 3 diamonds dead, i think we should be done with the hand?

[1tripz1]

Although were geting over 6-1..

Could villain just have an Ace?? At these limits its possible..

[troxx]

i don't agree. His overbet all-in is suspicious to me. Please remember that you have underrepresented your hand a lot. You took one barrel at the flop (c-bet) and it looks like you pretty gave up the hand at that point. It's very likely that he just had Jx or even Ax. Remember you are heads-up and villain has absolutely no idea you were drawing diamonds since last 2 diamonds are turn and river diamonds and you gave action just and only at the flop.

I would consider calling here very seriously.

[1tripz1]

Yeah, i dont think we should fold here at all.

[bsball8806]

I don't either, I'm just saying that the A of diamonds is by no means the best card to come for us.

[futuredoc85]

why did you check the river? you beat everything but a full house and you dont value-bet?

[Aceium]

You lose a lot of value when you check this river. Since villan is running at 30/11 here, I would probably lead this river and call a raise expecting him to show down JQ or JT.

[avfletch]

What are everyone's views on cbetting this flop? I definitely don't think I'm doing it every time. There's a two people who both have pocket pairs as a big chunk of their range. The chance of folding out both isn't that great and then you're left on the defensive, especially if the caller is button since you're OOP.

[Prodigy54321]

c-betting into 2 players here is debatable, but I don't hate it...

turn is fine..

value bet the river

as played, call