Archive for October 11th, 2009

I got a very good comment/question from Christoph on a recent post about a huge bluff that I averted when I rivered a pair:

“I’ve been thinking a bit about this hand and I’m wondering about how you’d play it if you were the player holding the aces. It sure depends a lot on reads, but let’s just say that you’re playing a good thinking player that is able to make big bluffs. I tried to come up with a way to defend against such a bluff, but I don’t really see any. I mean, you can start check/calling on the turn and river, but that way you might loose some value from 7x, 8x and overpairs. On the other hand if you bet and get raised, I don’t like any option. You can fold, but AA is still pretty strong considered your whole range you could be double barreling, so b/fing seems exploitable. However if you b/c, then I can’t see how you can not stack off on almost any river, if you think villain is capable of a big bluff. But that way you’ll loose 300BB with one pair pretty often as well.”  Read the complete post...