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River spot against slow-playing villain

No Limit Holdem Tournament • 2 Players$5 + $0.25 Heads Up Sit & Go Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter SBHero1622  BBMar0cR3am1378  Effective Stacks: 34bb Blinds 20/40 Pre-Flop (60, 2 players) Hero is SB Hero calls 20, Mar0cR3am checks   Flop (80, 2 players) Mar0cR3am checks, Hero bets 50, Mar0cR3am calls 50   Turn (180, 2 players) Mar0cR3am checks, Hero bets 120, Mar0cR3am calls 120   River (420, 2 players) Mar0cR3am bets 222, Hero ?  This is the 2nd game against this guy. Villain was pretty decent for the stakes if a little loose OOP preflop, but was slow playing his big hands. On the first paired flop we played, he floated me with ace high. In another hand, he had checked back flopped trips on flop and turn, then minbet the river. On another paired flop, he c/c flop, c/c turn, and checked a non scare card river with trips again. There was another hand, where he bet flop, c/c turn, and checked river with KJ on a QTxAx board. So, slowplaying seemed to be his standard line with his big hands.I limped because he was calling a bunch PF and floating a decent amount of flops. Should I be jamming over his river lead? I doubt he's folding Qx type hands, but I also don't really know what his range is when he leads here, because he's shown a willingness to trap all the way to the river. At the time, I thought that his lead could have been an adjustment to me checking back a lot of rivers.  I kind of feel like calling is nitty because I have a flush, so his range is probably weighted more toward Qx hands than better flushes, but at the same time I feel like his river bet is great to induce shoves from all the flush draws that just hit if he has  Q2, Q7, Q6, 22, 77, or 66. 

thepuminator's picture
If you dont think he is

If you dont think he is folding any Q to a jam then jam it in. Since he is so trappy he can have all of the Qx and be leading the river because he figures it is a scare card for every hand you can have except a flush and has seen you can check back rivers. Also, people who play passive generally have a harder time letting thier big hands go.I dont understand why people lead to induce from draws that just hit. If you hit the draw then he would expect you to bet the river which he could then jam over the top of if he has a boat/flush, while keeping all of ur bluffs in instead of leading and you just folding ur air and getting the same result from your worse flushes. 

RyPac13's picture
I agree with

I agree with Puminator.Another thing to think about would be raising preflop.  Now I know your opponent is somewhat loose preflop, but he sounds very passive, and it sounds like you might have fold equity on the flop quite often, so the combination of having an opponent that won't raise you very often before the river and some postflop fold equity should make at least a minraise a bit of a better action.

itsgotmetoo's picture
Thanks! I did end up shoving,

Thanks!I did end up shoving, and he had hit his boat on the river.I do kind of feel like I'm overadjusting to certain types of villains, so I appreciate the preflop advice.