In a tough $25/$50 no-limit hold’em cash game, I had a solid middle pair but faced a 3x-pot river bet for $2,700. What was the play? That’s the subject of this week’s strategy article here on PokerNews.
The hand took place a while back before COVID at Borgata, which actually reopened their poker room just recently. The opponent I’m up against in this hand is a good, strong professional player, well respected, and he likes to battle. He raised to $150 from the cutoff out of our effective $10,000 stacks.
I looked down at the on the button, and because the two players in the blinds were the sort of players I definitely wanted to keep in the hand, I opted to just call.