Question of the Week Test Your Poker Skills
Pot: $101
Blinds: $1/$2
Question
In your six-max game online it's folded to you in the cut-off. You raise to $8 and a tight-ish regular calls on the button. The blinds fold and the flop comes 3
5
. You fire $12 and the button calls. The turn comes 4
and you second-barrel $30. Your opponent calls. The river comes 9
.
What should you do?
Correct Answer: Bet all-in
If you're going to barrel this river you absolutely need to overbet shove it. If you bet $60 your opponent is going to call with basically his entire turn-calling range. However if you shove your opponent is going to only call with the very, very top of his range. If you look at your opponent's range in this hand it consists of a very high percentage of medium pocket pairs, weak tens, and at very best something like JJ. Of those, very few are going to want to stack off against an overbet on this river. The way the current $1/$2 games are, overbets are almost always the nuts so an overbet bluff can be a great move from time to time.
Pot: $101
Button
$150
Fold
Small Blind
$199
Fold
Big Blind
$230
Fold
1st
$199
Fold
2nd
$214
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