Another Classic Hand posted by Schweig @ Fri, 20 Apr 2012 02:01:03 +0000

I will say that raising small isn't really worth the thin value you get versus someone as durrr given that he can do a lot of crazy shit, unless you know that he's going to spazz a decent amount of the time that you can just call it off.

I don't have a clue if that this is the case in this situation. Certainly both the small bet and small-ish raise have introduced a lot of levelling concepts that it will probably depend highly on the history.

Oh, and the chance of him having QJ/87 are very slim given he c/c'd the flop, but it is likely he knows that and that's not what he's trying to rep at all. He may have read the river raise as thin value, thinking that he would raise something more nutted like QJ, TT larger, in which case he could 3-bet for value with a lot of two pairs, or bluff.