NL 50: Two pair w/scary board
 

Villain is 28/11/1.6 but only over about 50 hands or so. No other specific reads. AK and JT have me crushed here while I'm way ahead of KQ, A5, or any draws or combo draws. I'm pretty much ignoring the possibilities of pocket Q's, K's, or A's because of the smooth call OOP preflop. And I think pocket 5's would have gotten away from this on the flop.

Full Tilt Poker, $0.25/$0.50 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 8 Players
LeggoPoker Hand History Converter

MP1: $60.75
MP2: $40.10
Hero (CO): $46.80
BTN: $51.50
SB: $44.45
BB: $34.75
UTG: $7.65
UTG+1: $48.75

Pre-Flop: A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] dealt to Hero (CO)
5 folds, <font color="red">Hero raises to $2</font>, BTN folds, SB calls $1.50

Flop: ($4) Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (2 Players)
SB checks, <font color="red">Hero bets $3</font>, SB calls $3

Turn: ($10) 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (2 Players)
SB checks, <font color="red">Hero bets $8</font>, <font color="red">SB raises to $18</font>, <font color="red">Hero???

Re: NL 50: Two pair w/scary board
 

Bah, think I fold here. c/c, c/r is so often a monster here and with monster I don't mean KQ. Plus people love to play JT...
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Re: NL 50: Two pair w/scary board
 

This is stealing situation and we can add some extra hands: Axs, K5s. And I can't worry about nuts each time - yeah AK, JT is his range but I think we can see A5, K5, KTs, AJ, bluff here as well.

I would shove because if we call there are lots of river cards what make my decision on the river much more harder or kill the action and I want to protect my hand. Bluffs/draws don't pay anyway if river is blank and probably we stack him here if he check-raised with 2p. Only what I worry is we folding out weaker aces - AT, AJ, A9.

Re: NL 50: Two pair w/scary board
 

I think that most of his range is combo draws, pair-draws and KQ. I'm pretty sure you would've been repopped by AK and possibly by AQ. Board's juicy enough to get it in here, IMO and like rankaments said, you'll get value from the pair draws that you won't get on the river, should they miss.

Re: NL 50: Two pair w/scary board
 

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I think that most of his range is combo draws, pair-draws and KQ. I'm pretty sure you would've been repopped by AK and possibly by AQ. Board's juicy enough to get it in here, IMO and like rankaments said, you'll get value from the pair draws that you won't get on the river, should they miss.

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Why would combo draws or pair-draws wait until the turn though to c/r? Aren't hands like that MUCH more likely to have c/r the flop than the turn?