I've only been playing on Merge for a few days.. but I've gotten a bit of a feel for some of the 4nl regs already. The villain here was one of them. He was 24/12 and I had seen him open-limp with low/middle pairs on a few occasions. Unfortunately for this hand... I figure 99 is about the top of his pocket pair range here... but in his range.

When he called my raise I was able to eliminate AJ/KJ/QJ type hands from his range in my mind. I don't think he was ever going to open limp with JJ or better. So at this point I was pretty sure he was holding a pocket pair 22-99.

He took his time to call my flop bet. I was a bit unsure what to make of that, was he thinking about folding or wondering if he should raise me right there?

The river card didn't please me too much. I had to consider what he was calling my pre-flop raise and my flop bet with.. 9-9 had to be a possibility... 4-4 was certainly in his open limp range but would he have called my first 2 bets with that? Was I wrong and perhaps he called my pre-flop bet with AJ?

At any rate.. I decided to check-call the river and not risk a re-raise.

Did I make the right play here?



$0.02/$0.04 No Limit Holdem
Merge
9 Players
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Stacks:
UTG ($1.28)
UTG+1 ($4)
MP1 ($6.08)
MP2 ($1.35)
MP3 ($8.08)
CO ($1.53)
BTN ($9.56)
hero (SB) ($3.92)
BB ($1.14)

Pre-Flop: ($0.06, 9 players) hero is SB
4 folds, MP3 calls $0.04, 2 folds, hero raises to $0.20, 1 fold, MP3 calls $0.16

Flop: ($1.04, 2 players)
hero bets $0.29, MP3 calls $0.29

Turn: ($2.40, 2 players)
hero bets $0.68, MP3 calls $0.68

River: ($5.96, 2 players)
hero checks, MP3 bets $1.78, hero calls $1.78