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Message: [QUOTE="fundiver199, post: 5904402, member: 397965"] Preflop If you are a solid winning player, it would probably be better for you to top up to, whatever the poker room allows, and not only play with 75BB in your stack. A 4BB open is large but pretty normal for soft live games, and 99 is of course a standard open Flop Before even starting postflop play its worth to pause a while and think about, which worse hands you can get value from. First off, and this might sound trivial, you lose to a 6, which he can certainly have, so its not like, you exactly have the nuts here. That means, that for me this is probably mostly a 2 street hand. I do like betting the flop though, because you deny a lot of equity from random overcards like QJ or AT. Or if he call you get value. But apart from that he is probably only going to pay you with 5X, 77-88 and a few draws, and this is important to keep in mind when playing the later streets. Turn This was a good and a bad card for you. Its good, because now its more likely, you have the best hand. His combos of 6X are cut in half, and if he was slowplaying 55, then he just got counterfeited. Its also bad though because now he will not pay you with draws, since he is drawing dead to all your value. Since draws will not pay, I lean towards checking back turn and get the second street of value on the river. That allow him to turn his 87 or whatever into a bluff. River You can not check, when he is first to act, so what must have happened here, is a donk bet (lead) from him, which you then raised. This is kind of weird, because 2d should not have helped him in any way. So it looks bluffy, and therefore I am not going to fold, even though I said, your hand was mostly a 2 street hand. It does however become more of a 3 street hand with this runout, which is very good for you. I would not raise however, because that should only get action from slowplayed quads, that took a weird river line. Results Him donking and then calling a raise on the river with a 5 makes me question, if he is really as good, as you think. He should clearly have checked again and then made a decision, if you bet. You got maximum value in this case, but that was mostly, because he played very poorly, and I dont like your river raise. The rest of the hand is fine though. [/QUOTE]

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