[Nate tha\\\' Great]

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you are right, but kirby's river play is exceptional.

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Does an exceptional player fold to this river raise, though? All that would have happened is that Ian would have 3-bet a Button steal, dark bet the flop, and called a turn raise. Which means, his hand does a convincing impression of one pair, which might have made trips on the river. It could also conceivably be a bluff, since there are some bluff-rebluff dynamics that come into play with the dark bet on the flop. Although I do think that playing something like QJ this way on the river would be a mistake on Ian's part, it's nevertheless close enough where unless he plays both cautiously and "perfectly", laying down the nut straight would be an error.