- Fold the river?
- Call the river?
- Raise the turn and try for a free showdown if unimproved?

Please advise.

--CM


This would be significantly easier with a read.
So let's assume I have none.


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Poker Stars
Limit Holdem Ring game
Limit: $1/$2
5 players
Converter

Pre-flop: (5 players) Hero is BB with 7 9
3 folds, SB raises, Hero calls.


Flop: 7 4 8 (4SB, 2 players)
SB bets, Hero raises, SB 3-bets, Hero calls.


Turn: 6 (5BB, 2 players)
SB bets, Hero calls.


River: Q (7BB, 2 players)
SB bets, Hero ???

what about capping the flop thus forcing him to flip over his hand on the turn?

even against an over pair our equity isn't horrible.

I flat the flop and turn. (Maybe popping the turn.)

My instinct is to flat the flop. Basically any hand we're ahead of, that is calling is going to have a boatload of equity anyways, so it's never usually in our best interest to jam the flop. Our best case scenario is that he has offsuit overcards, and will call the flop raise, and most likely fold the turn, unless he's showdown bound with ace high (I don't think it's that likely, as a lot of scare cards will come off that make him muck his ace, at least if I were playing an AK in his spot.) If we flat the flop, we almost always get a turn bet from AK or KQ or whatever, and then we can make a decision whether to bink it there, or just call down.

As played, though, I call the river, mostly because it's a blind battle, and online, I assume he's aggressive enough to realize this, and run with it.