Hey guys! I played this hand yesterday and would appreciate your opinion on my play here. flop and turn felt like pretty straight forward value bets, flop I imagined I would get called by a lot fewer hands worse than mine then if I were to check/call. Was my decision to check /call here right according to you?



PokerStars - $0.02 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: 104 BB (VPIP: 15.38, PFR: 15.38, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 13)
BTN: 104 BB (VPIP: 22.92, PFR: 20.83, 3Bet Preflop: 15.38, Hands: 51)
Hero (SB): 127 BB
BB: 82 BB (VPIP: 31.48, PFR: 5.56, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 56)
UTG: 100 BB (VPIP: 50.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 4)

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, fold, BTN raises to 2.5 BB, Hero raises to 8 BB, fold, BTN calls 5.5 BB

Flop: (17 BB, 2 players) 8♦ 5♦ J♣
Hero bets 11 BB, BTN calls 11 BB

Turn: (39 BB, 2 players) 5♥
Hero bets 25 BB, BTN calls 25 BB

River: (89 BB, 2 players) J♠
Hero checks, BTN bets 60 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 60 BB

Cant be to bad with all the straight and flush draws missing.

Originally Posted by Fvendal

Cant be to bad with all the straight and flush draws missing.

Hahahaha. This is total absurd.


The opponent has more jacks in his range than missed draws!!
River check-fold 100%. Or you can try to play value bet 1/5 or 1/4 of pot, no more. And, ofcourse, always fold vs push. If you played check, you must fold, because you will never see the bluffs here.

This is just one of those spots where you have no way of knowing whether you're good or not. You're either bluff catching a flush draw or you're dead in the water against a set that turned into a boat. Your check on the river pretty much sealed your fate in drawing out the river shove.

Your getting 2.5/1 on a call so you only need to be right 25% of the time.We probably cant shove for value on the river so all our hands is now on the river is a bluff catcher.So it's whether or not we think villain has enough bluffs on that board.

This one is close and I would let go this AA combo as it blocks nut flush draws.
Also on this run out, you have to check river the whole range to protect your calling ranges as well as a default play.

I should add that he bet pretty wide when checked to on the river.

Not even a slightly close call. It's more important to understand why it's not even remotely close though. You're only beat by 88/JJ and Jx is limited to KJ and under since you have an A. You have the Ad, but that's not super relevant here since your opponent is IP and his flush draws will include many smaller draws.