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Joe Tall wrote:

Pot is huge, calling is fine.

I\'d really be hoping to see the Kh on the river but I\'m not folding. Only way I\'m folding this hand, given the size of the pot and the descriptions of those involved, is if it\'s two bets to me on the river.

Rob

Pot is huge, calling is fine.

Gambooler to my left utg. Two people post behind, he sees the dead money and says I\'m going to build a HUGE pot - he straddles. Villain plays a lot of pots, sees a lot of turns. He had a look on envy on his face when the two guys across the table showed their bluffed T high and 7 high winning hands in earlier pots - folding out the completion. I know villain is capable of a steal attempt heads up, I don\'t know if he is capable of a steal attempt 3-way. He seems aggressive only in the oddest spots, at other times he is a total calling station - in other words I wish he was sitting on my other side.


UTG+1 limps, UTG keeps saying \"pump it up\" after looking at his cards, both posters limp; sb folds, I 3-ball with black KK in the BB, one of the posters folds. nearly 14 SB to the flop.

Flop TQ3 - 2 hearts. I bet, UTG says \"I can still draw out\" and calls, UTG+1 raises (he has a heart draw for sure, he likes to trap on the turn with top pair), fold, I 3 ball, both call. Turn is a Td. I bet knowing its possible for UTG to try to steal the pot, UTG +1 calls 2 bets cold (hearts remember?), and I wanna 3-bet so badly but I chicken out.

Am I lame for just calling, am I smart because a T is squarely within his range, or am I stupid for not folding?

Joe Tall wrote:

Pot is huge, calling is fine.

Thanks. At the time I really wanted to 3-ball, I felt as if I made a mistake but something was holding me back.

results: I call of course. river is a Q, and when UTG checked it was fairly obvious from the look on his face he had just become counterfeited - I\'m saying this because it might influence the question below. Checked through and he took it down with AT.

Now back to the read... villain had two specific quotes in the original post, could we narrow this down to a Q or a T played poorly on the flop, or should we expect a draw? He isn\'t the type to give out opposite communication to throw off his opponents, I don\'t think he knew what he was even saying at the time.