Posted Mon Aug 08, 2005 1:46 pm GMT by howzit
2/5NL @ the borg.
Hero: $1.8k and have an semi-aggressive image and they know i can show up a weird hands but I do get alot of respect from the table as a whole.
Villain($750): a dealer from Baltimore who is trying to play good poker. I've seen him make big moves w/nothing and is stealing some pots w/some well-timed raises. Not solid at all.
He opens $35. He opened for $25 the last time he had KK. I look down to see A8  Look to my left, nobody seems that intersted in teh hand, so I make it $100 even. Folded around. He calls sloppily.
Flop: ($200) 9-5-2, one club. He bets $150 almost instantly, i push before he can cut his chips.
you like?
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Posted Mon Aug 08, 2005 1:56 pm GMT by Soup_dog
Yikes! Bluff against a bluff. Granted you have the ace, but if he was playing garbage and just managed to hit a pair you might be in trouble. He has $250 in the pot and needs to push his remaining $500 to call right?
Hmmmmmm... Ballsy move, but sounds like a good one. I don't have the cash for those kind of plays but I like it.
Posted Mon Aug 08, 2005 2:01 pm GMT by Dr_Pablo
i like it, but some people play mid pocket pairs wierd, and he Might just call you with something like 10 10, 9 9, 8 8. although it hink he would lay it down given the hands you represented.
but what can he really put you on with the nearly 1.6k raise, with any hand he'd fold a mid pocker pair to, i doubt youd go all in there, i think hes gonna put you on AK. but he could just as easily have garbage as have something he MIGHT call with, so i like it.
Posted Mon Aug 08, 2005 2:08 pm GMT by howzit
what would be the benfits of leading for $150 w/a TT or 88? I don't see much.
I think checking and evaluating the situation would be the normal strategy.
Posted Mon Aug 08, 2005 5:32 pm GMT by ScanX
| howzit wrote: | what would be the benfits of leading for $150 w/a TT or 88? I don't see much.
I think checking and evaluating the situation would be the normal strategy. |
betting into the raiser with flopped set ?
it's very benefic play, especially since you reraised big preflop and would likely be holding AA or KK (as that's what you are representing) and so raising him on flop allowing him to go all-in and have you commited.
it's a better play than check-raising and would less likely scare AA/KK away.
EDIT : I misread, u were talking about TT or 88, I'm talking about 99, 55 and 22
you make that move quite fast if I understood correctly ? that isnt the normal strategy either for someone holding a big hand...looks more like a bluff.
how did it turn out ?
Posted Mon Aug 08, 2005 6:41 pm GMT by 1988 TR
Ballsy, that is for sure. Only calls that I can see are from 99, 55, 22, JJ, QQ, KK, AA. Maybe 1010 if he likes to gamble. Hell, I have even seen AK, 88 make these calls.
Although I would think he would re-raise preflop with AA.
I'm not sure what to think. 
Posted Tue Aug 09, 2005 8:29 am GMT by howzit
I should've added that i had just open pushed a the flop when I flopped trips against what i thought was an over pair. I was right and had stacked the guy off. So they had seen this play before.
Yeah, he said, "i can't believe I'm mucking kings" after about 5 minutes of Hollywooding it. I flashed the A and the table goes ape shit. So the guy goes and steams for a little bit and goes for a cigarette and the player to the right of him had peeked at his cards and said the dude had AK.
It was ballsy for sure but that $35 preflop bet was really bad and it was really what I went on. Let me add on more thing, i make this play once every 2384853894854357 hands. Things just lined up here.
Posted Tue Aug 09, 2005 7:42 pm GMT by gol4pro
Me like... and not just because it worked. You can eliminate pretty much any hand that calls you here from his hand range, and you might even have 4 outs if called :D
Good read.
Posted Thu Aug 11, 2005 11:33 am GMT by [psyonix]
Nice hand, nice read!
I was in a similar situation last night in tourney , 4 handed. I'm in position, heads up against one of the most feared players in the joint. I'm dealt AsJc in the hole, and he leads out with a raise, about 8x the BB. I reraise and he flat calls. The flop is rags, and he leads out and bets, 1/4 of the pot. I immediately go all-in, knowing for damn sure he missed the flop. He sat there for the longest time, and then declared a call. I flip AJ and he shows me big slick. I told him, "well, I knew you didn't hit the flop", and he said "likewise". I had him out-chipped 1.5:1, and then lost a good chunk of that with that move. Ironically, I'm dealt big slick the next hand, and I still have position on him, and I decided to push as I was the short stack. He looks at me and laughs, and says, "f*ck it, I'll call again". He shows 57. I show big slick and he's like, "I figured you had a good hand". The flop is 64A, turn is a K, river is an 8. So I took 4th (in the money), shook his hand and said "'til next time".
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