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Originally Posted by Rathji
There is no way someone who was not watching the entire game can make an accurate decision about if it was the right bet or not. You can't even get close to figuring it out if you dont have the cards that came down or betting for the hand.
Was someone representing strength? Weakness? Were they aggressive players? Passive? Did someone almost choke on their own tongue when the board paired on the river? How much was in the pot? Would he be seen as over betting if he went all in? or would it be seen as a continuation bet?
Poker is a game of statistics and people. You have not given any of the information about either of those 2 aspects of the game/hand in question so anyone who thinks they can accurately judge his actions as the proper maximal value bet is wrong. Dead wrong.
That said, if he thought either of them had a hand they would bet anything with given their play so far, he probably made the right call. If he had a history of check raising though, he probably made the wrong one.
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Wow you are taking this way too far. This is third rate cash games in Calgary, not the WSOP.
People at 1/2 no limit tables at the Casino in Calgary aren't exactly a bunch of Phil Helmuths. It wasn't tourney poker so the likely hood of ever getting a read on the other players is totally wrong. Unless the guy had been sitting there for 10 hours and all the other players were too.
Second he had the nuts. No if ands or buts. He had the nuts. When you have the nuts and you are in a weak position with few chips left you should bet. With only $100 left he should have bet at least some if not all of it.
I actually thought this situation was pretty easy to analyze. Hate to burst your bubble there bud but if you really believe what you wrote...well not really sure what else to say except that you are trying to sound like you know what you're talking about, and anyone who has studied poker for longer than 5 minutes would think you're just trying to sound important/knowledgeable and it is obvious you aren't either when it comes to poker from reading that.