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Message: [QUOTE="fundiver199, post: 6156105, member: 397965"] Preflop Standard isolation, but out of position I would prefer it to be larger like even just 10c. Flop I would like this small bet in a tournament or a high stakes cash game, but at 2NL against a fishy limper, I think, this sizing is leaving money on the table. Turn The J is not the greatest card, since it does complete hands like AJ, QJ and KT, which could all be in his range. Even so I am still on board with betting for value, and half pot looks fine. This kind of player is not folding any AX hand, and he can likely have all of them. River The 5 is a pretty big blank, and once again I think, its fine to bet half pot against a fishy limper. However when you get raised, I think, this is a fold. I know, you are getting a sick price, but when someone play passively for the entire hand and then wakes up with a raise on the river, its just never a bluff. And he is also not doing this for value with a hand worse than yours. If he had AT, A9 and so on, he would call again, but he would not raise. So this is a classic bet-fold spot against a fish. And dont listen to people, who go "LOL pot odds" or "you cant fold, because its to exploitable". Neither of this matter, because he is literally screaming from the mountain top, that you are beat. You only need to win this around 18% of the time, but we all know, you are winning maybe 1-2% of the time. So just fold and move on to the next hand. If you want to look at the situation a little deeper, then first of all what is he bluffing with? The only flopped draws were KJ, KT, JT, and these hands either turned a pair or a straight. And he is not turning one pair into a bluff on the river by min-raising it. So even just based on, what he arrive on the river with, he have no hands, that have not paired up, so he have no natural bluffs. Also this is probably (or at least should be) the worst hand in your range, that goes for 3 streets of value. So folding to a raise is not that tight or exploitable, as some people will instinctively think. You can have a bunch of sets or two pair here, or maybe even KT for the straight. So its not like, you are always folding, because you fold a one pair hand to this raise. [/QUOTE]

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