{"id":2532443,"date":"2024-06-25T19:16:41","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T19:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pokercoaching.com\/blog\/?page_id=2532443"},"modified":"2025-10-30T08:32:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T08:32:20","slug":"hero-call","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pokercoaching.com\/blog\/poker-terms\/hero-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Hero Call Definition \u2013 Learn What A Hero Call Is In Poker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A hero call is a poker term for calling a big bet with a weak hand that usually can only win if the opponent is bluffing. This is a high-risk, high-reward play that usually happens on the <a href=\"http:\/\/pokercoaching.com\/blog\/poker-terms\/river\/\" title=\"River Definition \u2013 Learn What A River Is In Poker\">river<\/a> and requires experience and great hand-reading skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, let\u2019s say your opponent overbets the pot on Qs Js 8c 5d 2s and goes all in on the river while you are holding AsJd. If you decide to call, that would be a clear hero call since you can only win if your opponent is bluffing because you are not beating any hands he is betting for value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That said, since you hold As as a <a href=\"http:\/\/pokercoaching.com\/blog\/poker-terms\/blocker\/\" title=\"Blocker Definition \u2013 Learn What Is A Blocker In Poker\">blocker<\/a> for a nut <a href=\"https:\/\/pokercoaching.com\/blog\/poker-hands\/flush\/\" title=\"Flush Definition \u2013 Learn What A Flush Is In Poker\">flush<\/a>, there is no chance your opponent has the <a href=\"http:\/\/pokercoaching.com\/blog\/poker-terms\/nuts\/\" title=\"Nuts Definition \u2013 Learn What Nuts Is In Poker\">nuts<\/a> here, which would be the prime candidate to overbet in such a situation. Therefore, you might consider hero calling based on the previous actions in the hand and your reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pokercoaching.com\/blog\/poker-terms\/\">All Poker Terms<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/pokercoaching.com\/tournament-masterclass\" class=\"adv-link\" aria-label=\"tournament masterclass unlock\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pokercoaching.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tournament-masterclass-unlock.png\" alt=\"tournament masterclass unlock\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/pokercoaching.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tournament-masterclass-unlock.png 1176w, https:\/\/pokercoaching.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tournament-masterclass-unlock-746x143.png 746w, https:\/\/pokercoaching.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tournament-masterclass-unlock-1024x197.png 1024w, https:\/\/pokercoaching.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tournament-masterclass-unlock-768x148.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1176px) 100vw, 1176px\" width=\"1176\" height=\"226\"   \/><\/a>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hero call is a poker term for calling a big bet with a weak hand that usually can only win if the opponent is bluffing. This is a high-risk, high-reward play that usually happens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":222,"featured_media":0,"parent":2532079,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"right-sidebar","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2532443","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"author_image":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Tadas Peckaitis","author_link":"https:\/\/pokercoaching.com\/blog\/author\/tadas-peckaitisgmail-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"A hero call is a poker term for calling a big bet with a weak hand that usually can only win if the opponent is bluffing. 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