JJ butchered but good

[loveinvain]

Villain is 17/5/.86 after only 41 hands.

I'm thinking now that I played this fine until I did NOT check the river. The one thing I did like about this hand is that I finally came to my senses and folded to the river raise even though I'm getting 5 to 1 or so. Normally, no always before I would just call here feeling like I had no choice but this time I decided that there was way less chance I was ahead here then I needed to call, like maybe 2% chance of being ahead instead of the 17% or whatever I need to call here.

So to sum up, pretty standard til river, bad river bet, good river fold.

Am I right?

And a follow up question, if I do check the river, whats my play if villain bets say 75-80% of the pot?


Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $2 BB (6 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: 2+2 Forums)

CO ($230.60)
Button ($178.59)
SB ($89.08)
BB ($557.20)
UTG ($236.95)
Hero ($200)

Preflop: Hero is MP with J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $8</font>, CO calls $8, <font color="#666666">3 folds</font>.

Flop: ($19) 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 3[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $14</font>, CO calls $14.

Turn: ($47) 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $32</font>, CO calls $32.

River: ($111) 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $78</font>, <font color="#CC3333">CO raises to $176</font>, Hero folds.

Final Pot: $365


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[Unknown Soldier]

well played

[mdkrahn]

I like it.

And I don't think I ever check river here vs this villain.

[loveinvain]

Why is checking the river bad? Help me out here cause I don't get it.

[lifes3ps]

i think hes saying that hes passive enough hes not going to be betting hands that your ahead of. maybe he can elaborate.

i personally check river myself, seeing i get a cheaper showdown. and fold to a raise

[pdoran10]

i like this whole line. seems perfectly fine here.