Re: Blind Steal vs. a calling station
The river check is bad. Players like this take a great many unshowable hands to the river in hopes of pairing them up. Even though his river calling standards might be a lot looser than yours, he makes up for it by not having cut his hand range down on the flop and turn. It is very rare to see an online player who calls the river more than 70% of the time overall.
Since you cannot beat anything, pot odds of 5-1 are simply too good to pass up in this situation. You are hoping to fold hands like T7 and Q3. It's also very good advertising as getting caught will reinforce Villain's incorrect calling. That's good since you are going to be playing a lot of hands against him because he is very loose and sitting next to you.
Preflop I tend to agree with those who would have completed. But it isn't a big deal as raising also has its good points.
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