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Hand of the week 7 · K♦ J♥

One Card Turns This River Call Into a Fold (Poker Blockers)

Your hand K♦ J♥

Board K♠ 8♠ 5♦ 3♣ 2♥

He bets the size of the pot on the river: a price of 33.3%.

  1. Call or fold with K♦ J♥? Decide before you read on.

    The answer

    Call. His bets: 34 value hands and 21 missed spade draws, 38.2% bluffs: call (+4 bb). With the J♠ instead, six of his bluffs cannot exist: 30.6%, a fold.

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