Help me with understanding King High calldown

[hoppscot22]

dont you guys know how to play limit hold em?... put villain on a hand you can beat and calldown jesus....

[King Fish]

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I don't play this high... ever. But, I took a shot.
Click here to see how well that worked out

This hand still boggles my mind. I was playing fairly tight, so I just don't understand. Should I be looking for more spots to calldown with King High?

Poker Stars
Limit Holdem Ring game
Limit: $100/$200
4 players
Converter

Pre-flop: (4 players) Hero is SB with 2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]
2 folds, <font color="#cc0000">Hero raises</font>, BB calls.

Flop: 3[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 4[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (4SB, 2 players)
<font color="#cc0000">Hero bets</font>, BB calls.

Turn: 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (3BB, 2 players)
Hero checks, <font color="#cc0000">BB bets</font>, <font color="#cc0000">Hero raises</font>, BB calls.

River: 3[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (7BB, 2 players)
<font color="#cc0000">Hero bets</font>, BB calls.

Results:
Final pot: 9BB
<font color="#">Hero showed 2h Kh</font>
<font color="#">BB showed 2d Ks</font>

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Looks like he has 56 (poss even 25) and a lower spade draw well within your range. Not a bad call at all.

[Nate tha\\\' Great]

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he called down with king high because the way you played the hand it looks like you didnt have anything which you didnt

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Exactly. The turn check-raise given this board texture is [censored] a very high percentage of the time. He made a bad turn bet but his calldown is fine.

[jay b.]

good thing villain doesn't read clarkmeister

[Abbaddabba]

So was the river a value bet or a bluff?

Sucks as either in my opinion.


For those who are saying that the turn action makes you look FOS, do you not take the exact same line when you DO have a piece?

[phish]

I don't get it. What's to understand?

[FloydTheWall]

Usually turn play like this is indicative of someone who doesn't have much, and feels they need to represent extra strength in order to get someone to fold. This is why he called the river. However, if you take the same line with a big hand on occassion you can use this to bluff too. I think it's a pretty standard riv call.

[latefordinner]

FWIW: I think this is a case of having to get to the river and /then/ having the pot odds to call. Without the Ks I think villain is folding the turn here but at this point he is getting 8-1 on the river and you have a busted draw or air more often than that.