$100 NLHE Full Ring: Call this River vs total unknown villain

$100 NL HE Full Ring: Call this River vs total unknown villain

This is villains first hand at the table. His line makes 0 sense here and I just can't find a fold vs a totally new villain who donk bets his first hand.


poker stars, $0.50/$1 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 7 Players
Hand History Converter by Stoxpoker

Hero (MP2): $102.70 (102.7 bb)
MP3: $100 (100 bb)
CO: $98.50 (98.5 bb)
BTN: $54.35 (54.4 bb)
SB: $105.90 (105.9 bb)
BB: $100 (100 bb)
MP1: $99.35 (99.4 bb)

Pre-Flop: Hero is MP2 with 9 9
MP1 calls $1, Hero raises to $4.50, 4 folds, BB calls $3.50, MP1 folds

Flop: ($10.50) 8 8 6 (2 players)
BB bets $8, Hero calls $8

Turn: ($26.50) 3 (2 players)
BB bets $21, Hero calls $21

River: ($68.50) K (2 players)
BB bets $66.50 and is all-in, Hero ?

Disclaimer that I don't know much about the dynamics of full ring, but were this 6-max, I'd play it the same way. Your hand is essentially face up, but there aren't that many players good enough to show up on the river with KQo and value-shove. I'd worry that he got there with a hand like Tc9c or such, but his range should be entirely polarized here.

As a sidenote, if you somehow find yourself on the river having bluffed two barrels like he did and pair a king, you should most definitely shove.

As a sidenote, if you somehow find yourself on the river having bluffed two barrels like he did and pair a king, you should most definitely shove.

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I most definitely shove this river with any K after I bluff two streets here.

Yea, I figured his range is totally polarized here as either a flopped boat (which really makes no sense to play this way as I'm stacking an overpair anyways on this board), a random 6x hand, or total air. Def more combos of air in his range.