Poker Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
There are 62 BBs in the pot, and your opponent has 71 BBs left. The river brings the 2h, your opponent checks, and you over shove. Your opponent thinks for a bit, and then calls with TcTd, and you have successfully stacked him. If you had bet the flop, your opponent likely would have called your flop bet. It's unlikely they would have called the turn if you bet again since they would have been committed at that point. In a re-raised pot they would have had to check-raise shove at that point.
Depending on your opponent and history it's possible they would do this a percentage of the time. However, if you think through their entire hand range, this was a fairly safe line to take even though the board is fairly coordinated. We know a bulk of their range is weighted towards hands you'd be crushing because it contains a lot of mid and high pairs. In the event that they did flop a big hand, like a set, and they bet the turn and river you can call. It's unlikely they would bet the turn and river with a hand like Jx or TT.