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Call river vs unknown villain

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Rospone
Joined: 30.06.2023

PartyGaming - $0.02 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 83 BB
SB: 198 BB
Hero (BB): 123.5 BB
UTG: 115 BB
MP: 39.5 BB
CO: 100 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A♣ A♦

UTG calls 1 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 3 BB, UTG calls 2 BB

Flop: (6.5 BB, 2 players) 8♦ 9♠ J♠
Hero bets 6.5 BB, UTG calls 6.5 BB

Turn: (19.5 BB, 2 players) 3♣
Hero bets 14 BB, UTG calls 14 BB

River: (47.5 BB, 2 players) K♥
Hero bets 20 BB, UTG raises to 49 BB, Hero calls 29 BB

Spoiler

Hero shows A♣ A♦ (One Pair, Aces)
(Pre 80%, Flop 3%, Turn 0%)
UTG shows Q♥ T♥ (Straight, King High)
(Pre 20%, Flop 97%, Turn 100%)
UTG wins 138.5 BB

Should I call river here? Is there anything I should have done better?


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regie
Joined: 06.03.2008

Raise bigger preflop. 4-5c . 3/4 flop cbet or 2/3 . Turn 70% and River 30% or give up. Not much Velue on the River and the K is only nice in case he holds QK, sometimes happens :)


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SDK1987
Joined: 12.11.2008

Pre-flop sizing is to small indeed. You can easily make it 5 or even 6bb out of position. Decent change villain will call with the same hands. On the flop I would Cbet a lot smaller. 4bb is big enough or you expect villain is a calling station. Than you can size up a lot.

River I would check and call a reasonable bet. Now you need to fold I think. I don't think villain will ever raise with worse. Also the raise size is suspicious. I would expect villain would shove as raise.

Cheers,
SDK1987


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Rospone
Joined: 30.06.2023

Thank you all. You are both correct, I should have raised more preflop. The bet on the river is way to aggreesive. I immagine check/ call small is the standard play as SDK mentioned. Maybe I can bet/fold something like 5bb. If he raised I am always beaten


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Bigger raise preflop. 4x at least. 5 or 6x will be better. Because UTG's open limp indicates that he is most likely fishy player. Postflop seems fine till the river. Bigger bet OTR. I expect him to call with every Jx hand or worse. When you face such min raise out of fishy player your AA are almost always no good. So you should make a disciplined fold


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FriskyArt
Joined: 27.10.2009

Yes preflop bigger bet size VS UTG limper. I don't think I can fold AA ever in NL2, people go to the showdown with all kinds of crap.


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