$10 NL HE 6-max: Was my river fold the right decision?

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Hi everyone,

I would appreciate your thoughts on this hand.

I was playing $0.05/$0.10 NLHE 6-max with about 100 big blinds. I was on the Button holding A♠ Q♠.

An early-position player raised to 3 BB. I called, and the blinds folded.

Flop: Q♥ 8♣ 4♠

Villain made a continuation bet of about half the pot. I called with top pair and a good kicker.

Turn: 9♦

Villain bet again, and I called because I still believed I had the best hand against many value bets and bluffs.

River: K♣

Villain moved all-in. I tanked for a while because the King completed some strong hands, but missed draws were also possible. In the end, I folded.

Looking back, I'm wondering if this fold was too tight. Would you have called or folded here? I'd like to hear how others would approach this spot and what range you would assign to the villain.
 
Alot of info missing in this hand history, but broadly speaking its fine to fold river here
 
Preflop
You could 3-bet here, but it kind of sucks to get 4-bet, so overall I would mainly call.

Flop and turn
Standard calls. Folding would be way to tight, and raising would be an overplay.

River
If you started with 100BB, and he also bet aorund half pot on the turn, then this was a massive overbet. In general at stakes like 10NL, if you face a river jam for 100BB or more, one pair is almost never good. So even if you somehow ended up here with AK, I would still recommend folding. The worst hand, I would expect the Villain to jam for value, would be KQ, that rivered top two pair. JTs turned a straight, and he could also have all the sets. So there is a ton of value, you lose to, and no logical bluffs.
 
Pre is ok, sometimes 3-bet.
Flop and turn are fine, and fold river.
 
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khushalprem said:
Hi everyone,

I would appreciate your thoughts on this hand.

I was playing $0.05/$0.10 NLHE 6-max with about 100 big blinds. I was on the Button holding A♠ Q♠.

An early-position player raised to 3 BB. I called, and the blinds folded.

Flop: Q♥ 8♣ 4♠

Villain made a continuation bet of about half the pot. I called with top pair and a good kicker.

Turn: 9♦

Villain bet again, and I called because I still believed I had the best hand against many value bets and bluffs.

River: K♣

Villain moved all-in. I tanked for a while because the King completed some strong hands, but missed draws were also possible. In the end, I folded.

Looking back, I'm wondering if this fold was too tight. Would you have called or folded here? I'd like to hear how others would approach this spot and what range you would assign to the villain.
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Your fold was definitely not too tight.
As to range the study point is the turn. What does your player pool bet on that turn. Are they normally active on a nut changing turn card. The turn is rainbow so Villain did not pick up equity with a new flush draw, so their betting range condenses on turn- if they understand these concepts. You want to study your player pool to see if they do.

As to the river does your player pool expect to be called when they over bet shove. Look for the calling frequency in your player pool.

It is best to build ranges based on player pool data. You can run the hand in a solver to get a baseline on the turn but you then want to adjust the range based on player tendencies that you have observed.


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Without seeing the full action, a river fold can definitely be the right decision if the line represents a strong value range.
At $10NL, I’d rather make the disciplined fold than convince myself every big bet is a bluff.
Sometimes saving those chips is the best play.
 
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