Awkward hand means awkward river

[pokerkasper]

If you want to talk seriously about poker cool down and stop any kind of aggressions in your postings. I know exactly what you mean, i know the standard play and i need not any advice.

Calling a bet here with any pair, two pair or trips is really weak. In this spot you are only about 5% to catch a bluff. Not enough to call multiway. OK there are a lot of weak players out calling this. I know it and i like it. The nice thing is, there are a lot of players out there in these limits betting into your flush too. Weak play. My stats say about 7% of the 5+ply river-hands are checked through here. In 1/2 to .25/.50 and 5+ players still in, it happens f.i. frequently that i`m sitting with a flush there and a east-european or scandinavian fires out after 2 player checked with a straight, trips or even two pairs. Thats why i thought why not checking here with a flush first to bet? And i have good results with this play. There are rare situations with hands higher than pair checking through behind me in this limit without tight players. The value i lose here is outweighted by the surprise action i get after my check, when one of the last 2 players to act bets.

I would still bet here with a nut flush. Here i get my extra money from weak players who raise with a slightly weaker flush on the river and from value-betting the turn.

If you are not first to bet here, than its wright to bet for value. Also if they ALL are passive and the river is often checked i would auto-bet it out here.

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and:
"if you find that people are auto-folding to your bets whenever a potential draw hits and thus making them have no value- heres some news for you - you arent betting enough."

Here are some news for you. People in these limits don´t care much about betting patterns. And it doesn´t matter much if you bet "enough" or not. A bet in this spot alerts a flush for sure. Anyone who wants to call here knows he has to deal with a sure flush. If anyone is betting "enough" by bluff betting here s/he lose money.