200NL AK river play - am I supposed to fold now?

[RHoof]

Is checking the turn a bad play? (W/ the idea that your going to call most river bets). Its passive but it controls the size of the pot.

[Unknown Soldier]

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Is checking the turn a bad play? (W/ the idea that your going to call most river bets). Its passive but it controls the size of the pot.

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yes, missing a load of value from lower Ks/draws.

[LouisCyphre]

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Is checking the turn a bad play? (W/ the idea that your going to call most river bets). Its passive but it controls the size of the pot.

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Why do you want to control the size of the pot? You have top pair pot kicker on a non-dangerous board. In addition the stacks are not very deep. You want to charge flush draws and worse Kings for drawing.

[RHoof]

well it seems to me when he calls the flop, he has either flush draw, set, or KQ. If the flush comes, then you can fold to a big bet. If you're up against a set, you min. losses. If you're up against KQ, you probably still induce either a river bet that you can call. If he checks the turn and river, you can safely put in a good value bet. Maybe, I'm way off, but I don't like it when people cold call pot sized flop bets out of position when I don't have better than tptk.

[RHoof]

and when he is on a draw and misses, he's going to bluff at it enough for you to make some money.

[Mjafish]

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ps. what shpanko said. maybe theres a merit to them playing it like that to try and fold out better hand if they have KT or something

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If villian has a PSB left then maybe this can be done, but he barely has 1/2 pot left. I'm calling this every time, but I'm still unsure if I should be folding, since I assume villain knows I'm commited to calling. All of this said, like shpanko, I have seen all kinds of crappy kings, and worse in this spot too. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

[Da GOAT]

fine but if he seems like a station i like a bigger bet on turn. theres nothing really wrong with your bet but if he will call $55 almost the same amount of time as $36 then i will bet $55.