JTo 3way - tough river decision

[zEBBiE]

6 players at the table before, and at that time villain played roughly 23/9/1.7

Prima Poker skin
Limit Holdem Ring game
Limit: $1/$2
3 players
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Pre-flop: (3 players) Hero is BB with J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] T[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]
<font color="#cc0000">Button raises</font>, SB folds, Hero calls.

Flop: 6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 2[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (4.5SB, 2 players)
Hero checks, <font color="#cc0000">Button bets</font>, <font color="#cc0000">Hero raises</font>, Button calls.

Turn: 7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (4.25BB, 2 players)
<font color="#cc0000">Hero bets</font>, Button calls.

River: 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (6.25BB, 2 players)
Hero ?

I assume that up to the river my play is standard?

[Oink]

betbetbetbetbetbet

[zEBBiE]

And then fold if raised?

[Saikkonen]

I'd bet this. We are just 3 players and button seems like a reasonable good player based on his stats. He would have to call with any low heart because you could be bluffing and we only fear Q,K,A in hearts and I see no reason why he should have one of them.
If we don't have further reads I would betcall and against a passive player I would betfold.

[jstill]

b/f

[TheWunderkind]

dont get the 3 way thing

[bobhalford]

I would probably fear a better flush, because what hand just calls down from the flop raise? I suppose he could hold A6/99/88/55. When he calls the turn I'd fear that he was drawing to a better flush and had something like KhT. On the river, I'd just bet. You can't go wrong folding to a raise because villain, if he holds the Qh, isn't going to raise. You get paid off by all the other second best hands.

[thesilkworm]

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I assume that up to the river my play is standard?

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Depending on villain, I'll occasionally 3-bet out of the BB preflop, but calling is standard. Flop and turn are standard.

Bet river, fold to a raise.

[Fonzi]

why do you bet the river? are you really going to be best more than 50% of the time when called? I think a lot of even more passive players will bluff at this if you check the river. They're thinking "he checked, he doesn't have a heart" and they'll value bet 9s down to 2s, and bluff with anything else. I check call here and win an extra bet when he bluffs.