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CactusCat
Rock Star
Silver Level
You're sitting to the right of someone and the river brings in a 4-flush board. The opponent is someone who is a good hand-reader and is capable of making big laydowns. Your own image is that of a tight-player. He makes a healthy bet.
He is almost certainly value-betting with a Queen-high up to Ace-high flush. Sometimes he'll check-call the Queen or Jack of the suit to bluffcatch since it's hard to imagine getting action from worse.
What if you raise the river? Conventionally, can even a king-high flush call if you deny him the proper odds? It seems like suicide to make this raise, but at the same time this raise at the micro to low stakes is almost 100% of the time the stone cold nuts. This is something I've learned the hard way holding the king-high flush myself. So you're betting that he doesn't have the one hand that can call. And he has 2 other hands (the queen and king) that he'd lead the river with that he can find a tank-fold with.
Would it be the correct play to go for the hero bluff? I've read a lot on when it's correct to call and the like, but knowing when to pull the trigger on a bluff is a lot hazier to me.
He is almost certainly value-betting with a Queen-high up to Ace-high flush. Sometimes he'll check-call the Queen or Jack of the suit to bluffcatch since it's hard to imagine getting action from worse.
What if you raise the river? Conventionally, can even a king-high flush call if you deny him the proper odds? It seems like suicide to make this raise, but at the same time this raise at the micro to low stakes is almost 100% of the time the stone cold nuts. This is something I've learned the hard way holding the king-high flush myself. So you're betting that he doesn't have the one hand that can call. And he has 2 other hands (the queen and king) that he'd lead the river with that he can find a tank-fold with.
Would it be the correct play to go for the hero bluff? I've read a lot on when it's correct to call and the like, but knowing when to pull the trigger on a bluff is a lot hazier to me.