Should you check back an overpair on the river when board pairs?

Last month I had a sweat session with the guys from The Chip Race from when I performed the SuperNova PKOs on Unibet. I wished to select just a few of the extra attention-grabbing fingers for an abridged sequence of hand evaluations. If you missed the first one, right here it’s. 

This hand is early in the €100 SuperNova, I’ve nearly 500BBs and min increase beneath the gun with JJ – it’s folded round to the Big Blind who flats. 

The flop is 79T ,  Villain checks to me. I guess 3/4 pot. I like this board, I block a possible straight and I believe there are a variety of attracts and Tx he’ll name me with. Do we like that thus far? 

David Lappin: Yes and no. You block the attracts so it could fear me if you get a variety of motion. It can be good if you get known as you’ll be forward most of the time, but when you get raised I’d begin getting apprehensive. 

Dara O’Kearney: Also when you say this can be a good board, that is true on your particular hand (you even have a gutshot and backdoor diamonds) however on your vary this can be a dangerous board as a result of he’s speculated to have some of these playing cards extra usually. We positively should go forward and guess, however as David says if we get raised we’re not going to adore it. We have a hand that figures to be finest most of the time and advantages strongly from safety. Numerous his fingers have one or two overcards and backdoor fairness, so we must always guess. 

I knew I’d get in bother claiming I perceive the impression of the blockers right here. 

The flip is a 5 and that doesn’t change a lot, he checks once more so I guess once more 3/4 pot. 

David Lappin: The nuts has not modified and being in the Big Blind he can join with any card that comes, however I nonetheless like your determination to guess. 

The river is a T he checks once more which makes me assume he has little or no, so I guess fairly small (14 massive blinds right into a 35 massive blind pot) to attempt to get a one pair hand to name. 

Dara O’Kearney: He has considerably capped his vary on such a draw heavy flop, if he had a really robust hand he would have check raised on the flop. When he check/calls flop he’s largely capped to a single pair, so tha 5 on the flip did not actually enhance his fingers. This river does enhance a variety of his fingers. All of his Tx performs like this and he does not actually name many smaller pairs. 

David Lappin: We are principally targetting Q9 right here that was skeptical of your triple barrel. 

Dara O’Kearney: I’d be making a skinny worth guess right here, if I believed he was actually able to check/increase bluffing I’d most likely check behind. There are a variety of missed attracts on this board so he can most likely speak himself into calling with a small pair as a result of you could be bluffing with a missed draw. 

He calls and reveals me AA.

David Lappin: Wow, did not see that coming. He has performed his hand badly from the standpoint of a PKO. 

I used to be beneath the gun, so I might have given him a variety of motion if he reraised me preflop. 

Dara O’Kearney: You haven’t got too many increase/folds beneath the gun and his hand is nearly all the time good on the flop so he might have simply saved betting. 

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Barry Carter

Barry Carter is the editor of PokerStrategy.com and the co-author of The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2, Poker Satellite Strategy and PKO Poker Strategy