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Posted Sun Aug 20, 2006 7:30 pm GMT by UtrechtSlim
This happened in a live game with a couple of my buddies. Unlimited rebuy tournament at a table that started with nine, but is now reduced to five. Total chip count is 21,500. Blinds are 60-120. There's basically three big stacks out there:
8000 Villain 1
7000 Villain 2
6500 Hero
3500 Villain 3
3000 Villain 4
Villain 2 is a player I know very well, I play with him regularly. Hes a keen shorthanded player and a solid pot builder. Hes known to have a very strong hand when he moves all-in, although tonight he has made a very unorthodox move. He's taken a huge pot off the chip leader (Villain 1) by representing value bets on the first four streets and then pushing all-in on the river with an unpaired 92 offsuit. He gleefully flashed his hole cards, exhaling "I normally never do this" which I know is true, cause the guy hardly ever loses a big pot in a showdown.
Hero is TAG full ring gamer, yet no stranger to the requirements of shorthanded play when he's dealt
A  K 
in the big blind. Everyone folds except Villain 2, who raises to 3BB from the small blind. Hero reraises to 9BB. Villain flat calls. Flop comes:
T 7 6 
Villain checks. Hero bets three to four times the size of the pot and Villain 2 is very quick to go all-in. I basically know he has me beat at this point. I obviously take this opportunity to go into a staring contest with him. No intention of calling, but just to let him know that he's in for at least three minutes of squirming in his chair before he seeks me out again. I can get no decisive tell on this guy during this time, so I decide to go to my last resort. I flip my cards telling him I am neither calling nor folding....
I'm hoping for an instant flinch on his part, but there's not any, and here comes the twist... To my astonishment he flips one of his hole cards:
K
and rightfully says a cowboy cannot improve my hand in this case. He's also daring me to call. I eventually mucked the hand after minutes and minutes of mulling over the situation. It's quite interesting that he and I had a debate earlier in this game on how to play pocket cowboys and his contention in no way reflected his betting pattern in the given hand. Which doesn't mean anything because he's well capable of using this information to his advantage.
What was the other hole card my opponent held?
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Posted Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:27 am GMT by Cricket_Fire
You bet 3-4 times the pot 
Posted Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:54 am GMT by tame_deuces
If stack sizes are correct you went all-in on the flop, and if there is a small mistake and you overbet the pot huge you are now getting like somewhere between 20:1 or 30:1 pot odds on your money, in which this is an easy call w/ AK if villain's hand is either KK or KT.
I don't know if I'm reading this wrong or you have typoed the action.
Posted Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:34 am GMT by UtrechtSlim
How silly of me. My post looks completely foolish because it says
3-4 times the pot whereas I meant
3/4 times the pot size
Three quarters. Not 3x-4x. I have no talent for multitasking..
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