To jam or not jam the river

To jam or not jam the river

PokerStars - $2 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 112.66 BB
SB: 100 BB
BB: 220.45 BB
Hero (UTG): 167.48 BB
MP: 262.9 BB
CO: 40.12 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has J K

Hero raises to 3 BB, fold, fold, fold, SB raises to 12 BB, fold, Hero calls 9 BB

Flop: (25 BB, 2 players) 6 K 2
SB bets 9 BB, Hero calls 9 BB

Turn: (43 BB, 2 players) 6
SB checks, Hero bets 13.7 BB, SB calls 13.7 BB

River: (70.39 BB, 2 players) Q
SB checks, Hero ???

Should I jam or check back?

17 January 2024 at 02:35 AM
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I'm leaning towards check back.

We're still ahead against 99-JJ pocket pairs where our opponent calls a small bet on the turn and I don't expect him to call our river shove with hands like KT or AQ.


Would X back.

Don't like the turn stab since we aren't really protecting from much and you aren't getting 3 streets with this hand.


Turn is small mistake. We should either bet bigger if you think hand is strong enough to play for stacks or just check.

Agree woth river check. It's unlikely he will call jam with TT, some regs would so if you have a read jam is fine.


I ended up checking back the river and he had 99.

Given that I check turn, should I call a river over bet jam? I'm thinking yes, but not sure.


by TheGodson k

I ended up checking back the river and he had 99.

Given that I check turn, should I call a river over bet jam? I'm thinking yes, but not sure.

I'm not always the best with this but it looks like it's underbluffed.

Maybe DDP can chime in as I'm sure he knows better and has more of a sample.



by newguyhere k

I'm not always the best with this but it looks like it's underbluffed.

Maybe DDP can chime in as I'm sure he knows better and has more of a sample.

Agree with NG's data, I have similar results.

It's overbluffed BlindsvsBU though


One thing would interest me
Why doesn't anyone say anything about the preflop action?
According to Gto wizard we should only call the hand preflop 20 percent of the time against the 3bet. And on nl2 the ranges are probably very tight in the SB 3bet vs Utg spot.


by AcesUTGFold k

One thing would interest me
Why doesn't anyone say anything about the preflop action?
According to Gto wizard we should only call the hand preflop 20 percent of the time against the 3bet. And on nl2 the ranges are probably very tight in the SB 3bet vs Utg spot.

This is 200nl


I was wondering lol then you can ignore what I said.

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