I usually post folds, so here's a sick call

[zheka]

I think even a "pretty bad" in 150 will raise an Ax or Kx preflop. If he hit the flop he will bet somewhere before river to extract.
This is the call I can not make, but I'd say You won the showdown.

[adanthar]

This hand had a lot to do with the particular kind of opponent that does this.

He completes PF (this could be any two) and then checks the flop. At this point we can probably rule out a jack - he isn't slowplaying it with 800 chips left and a 300 pot. Instead, he is at least minbetting it because he's scared but has top pair. I have nothing so I check, but then he also checks the turn, where we rule out a 3 and basically confirms he *never* has a jack. It just isn't something a guy that likes auto minbetting would check twice. (This is the same reason he doesn't have 44.)

So on the turn, we know he has trip tens, or air. Now the river pairs the jack and he pushes. If he were slightly better, it would often be tens gambling on me calling, but he's bad and probably scared; a scared player much more often minbets tens or does something else other than overbet. The much more likely motivation is that he's pushing because he wants the pot and knows I can't call.

So like OSU said, what is he bluffing with? I don't think A high *ever* pushes this river with what is basically always the best hand; it doesn't make any sense. He might have K high, or I might be wrong and this is the 1 time in 100 he has a jack/exactly 33. But the push makes so little sense given his tendencies with anything that beats me, that my spider sense went off and I really felt most of the time I was ahead.

I called and beat 86o.

(I really didn't think 'sick' implied good, too. oops)

[Bigdaddydvo]

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Opponent is pretty bad. He likes completing the SB, minbetting flops, and walks on the beach.

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This seriously made laugh for a solid minute. NH.

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