Thin river value HU ($1/1)
 

We've been playing HU for about half an hour but villain is significantly mixing up his play with some pure bluffs, semibluffs and thin value-bets. He seems to be adjusting better than me and putting me under lots of pressure, but he will stack off far too light (i.e. he seems to be bet/3betting for pot with any draw + pair on almost any board). I've not seen him turn into a callstation OOP here and am wondering whether he's trapping me, or whether he's just wanting to call me down with K9 or something. I figure that if he's got K9 he'll be willing to call almost a full pot-size bet as he is very willing to put me on missed draws, but I just got the feeling on the river he was trying to play A9 for pot control OOP. Who finds a river value-bet?

Poker Room skin
Pot Limit Omaha Ring game
Blinds: $1/$1
2 players
Converter

Stack sizes:
hero: $344.80
BB: $218.45

Pre-flop: (2 players) hero is SB with Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 3[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]
<font color="#cc0000">hero raises to $1.65</font>, BB calls.

Flop: 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] ($3.3, 2 players)
BB checks, <font color="#cc0000">hero bets $5.3</font>, BB calls.

Turn: 2[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] ($13.9, 2 players)
BB checks, <font color="#cc0000">hero bets $15.9</font>, BB calls.

River: 6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] ($45.7, 2 players)
BB checks, hero checks.

Results:
Final pot: $45.7

Re: Thin river value HU ($1/1)
 

Definitely no value bet on this river... hoping he calls you with K9 is retarded tbh... plus do you feel you're ahead of his calling range when you bet the turn?

Re: Thin river value HU ($1/1)
 

I'm betting turn for value, for sure.

Re: Thin river value HU ($1/1)
 

I normally check behind here. This depends a lot on how you've been playing and how your opponent views your play.

Re: Thin river value HU ($1/1)
 

god learn to convert properly! 1$ and 1$ blinds and you raise to 1.65!? :-)

But seriously, i would 90% of the time check here as the chances that he had a busted draw also and wont call are high and if that aint the case he may have you beat
rarely will he call with worse hand, and checking you can gain info on him by seeing what he has, another reason to just check

Re: Thin river value HU ($1/1)
 

Heh, the converter read the HH wrong, it was a raise of $1.65.

Re: Thin river value HU ($1/1)
 

This could be a good bet call something like 10-15. His line strongly indicates he wouldnt c/r a9 hands here and u will give him 1 more oportunity to bluff and get some value if he make hero/potodds call.

Re: Thin river value HU ($1/1)
 

would a decent player really play K9 like this? I just check. I think you're behind enough here and he is hardly ever calling river when ur ahead.

Re: Thin river value HU ($1/1)
 

scratch that he doesnt have any draw, check behind, considering he doesn't have nfd you can also check turn behind safely and snap a river bluff from him.

Re: Thin river value HU ($1/1)
 

I think I valuebet here something like 20$