Re: Gigabet river play
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I would assume that he is raising for value here because he rightly figures to have best hand, has to call the reraise because of the pot odds, and he knows that if he is wrong he is still in fine shape.
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I understand that, but it seems like the problem with the raise is that he is pricing himself in to call the re-raise, when it is VERY unlikely his opponent is re-raising without a flush.
Combine that with the fact that there aren't that many worse hands that pay off the raise on the river, and this just doesn't seem like a profitable play to me. You win 1200 more chips the times you are ahead and lose 3200 when you are behind. You have to get called by a worse hand almost three times as often as you have to get re-raised by a flush to make this profitable.
Although if you are planning on calling the re-raise, I guess you have to assume Villain is pushing hands you are ahead of, as well. Which hands do you put in that category?
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