Quote Originally Posted by sickread23 View Post
But how can you call a hypothetical river bet by him which would be less than pot sized but not bet 4 value? I guess I may have folded if he had shoved the river because I would have found it difficult for him to find a bluff. Having said all that I feel it is closer than I initially thought. All in all, I just got unlucky. I was musing to myself," is folding pre flop actually a viable/optimal play given the action and stack sizes."
Its all about putting yourself in the BEST possible situations and avoiding risk. Just an unfortunate situation but betting the river is just putting yourself at more risk because he is calling with a range but better than AQ and he isnt folding say AK or set ect.