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Message: [QUOTE="fundiver199, post: 6795597, member: 397965"] Its true, that not all 8X in his preflop range nessesarely get to the turn like this. But rather than getting bogged down in defining his exact range, I think, we can just go with a general population read, that a big river bet in the micros is usually for value. And in this case the opponent bet almost 50BB, which definitely qualify as a big bet. This can also be explained theoretically. No poker player in the world like to fold a big hand, and when a bet is very big like 50BB, game theory dictate, that we are supposed to fold even fairly strong hands. But people hate doing that, so unless they are very disciplined, or the money matter to them, they will naturally tend to call to much. And in a 10NL online game a 50BB river bet is still only 5$, which is the price of a cup of coffee. Nobody is scared of losing 5$, and therefore most people will do, what OP did, and call. This makes big river bluffs unprofitable in the micros. And of course players adjust to this by not bluffing as much, as they should to be balanced, or at least the regs do. Finally it should also be mentioned, that Hero lose to higher sets as well as the straight. Maybe Villain think, Hero dont have s straight, when he check the turn, and actually go for thin value with his bigger sets. So if we feel, we absolutely must call without a straight sometimes, then 99 is a better hand to call with, because then at least we beat the other sets. And we also block 98, which is a somewhat more likely hand for him to have than 86. [/QUOTE]

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