First hand of the match. Just looking for general critique, especially on the river.No Limit Holdem Tournament • 2 Players Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter BTNPlayer31500 BBHero1500 Effective Stacks: 75bb Blinds 10/20 Pre-Flop (30, 2 players) Hero is BB Player3 calls 10, Hero raises to 80, Player3 calls 60 Flop (160, 2 players) Hero bets 100, Player3 calls 100 Turn (360, 2 players) Hero bets 270, Player3 calls 270 River (900, 2 players) Hero checks, Player3 bets 900, Hero calls 900 Final Pot: 2700
The 8 on the river shouldn't be a scare card, because your significant turn bet should scare away any random 8s, especially because of your preflop raise and your follow-through. One useful detail would be your buy-in. In a $115 or above, I feel like there's very little chance that your opponent holds an eight. At lower stakes, I have a lot less confidence in this kind of read. If you're at $115 or above, the only hand you can really worry about is AQ, but that seems pretty unlikely (recall, he limped). In my opinion, that makes a small ace a lot more likely, or a diamond draw. Then your question becomes what to do on the river. Tough to judge the merits of leading versus check/calling, but his limp probably means it is more likely that he is drawing than he has an ace. As a first hand, I'm check calling here and trying to give my opponent enough rope to hang himself with his busted draw. There will be times you are missing out on a value bet here, but all of the passive signs point to a draw and mean that you're not going to have your river bet paid off very often if you lead.