Paradise Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $2.50/$5
5 players


Stack sizes:
UTG: $758.10
Hero: $1395.30
Button: $1078.45
SB: $558.80
BB: $905.80

Pre-flop: (5 players) Hero is CO with
UTG folds, Hero raises to $17, Button calls, SB folds, BB calls.

Flop: ($53.5, 3 players)
BB checks, Hero checks, Button checks.

Turn: ($53.5, 3 players)
BB bets $5, Hero calls, Button raises to $50, BB folds, Hero calls.

River: ($158.5, 2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets $45, Hero raises to $700, Button raises all-in $966.45, Hero calls.

Results:
Final pot: $2091.4

what'd he have?

just out of curiosity.. set of 4s?

How the hell did you win so much money? He must have had a flush and put you on QQ or KQ. This seems like one of those posts you should put in the high level donkeys topic.

OH, and NIHAN!

OK OK - the guy that paid me off had .

I played it this way because the guy was a super-aggro knucklehead willing to fire 3 barrels every hand. He bought in for $200 and built it up to like $1200 in 30 mins (none of it off me), just by firing. I knew he was firing 3 times, got my dream flop and got doubly lucky that he also had a flush. If the board paired on the river I was going to call his bet.

ANyone else and I am potting every street, and getting paid like nothing (in retrospect, I might check that flop against other non CS players). Not sure.

Can anyone, given my read of the player, critique my play/provide alternate lines? I didnt think this was a strategy post, but I guess it could be.

That's insane. It goes from betting nickles and dimes to hundreds with raises hahaha

and one other psychological aspect to my thinking as this hand played out...

as i said earlier, this bloke had bought in to the table (it was $500NL) with $200 and was justy MIZING. His stack reached over $1200 very quickly. My read into his poker sould was that he was running it up, and if he had the second nuts as I suspected (he ended up having the 3rd nuts), then he would risk that huge stack in an effort to double up (effectively we each had over 2 full buy ins - I had like 1250 and had him covered by a bit).

This is a lesser discussed aspect of the game - but I feel one of my strong points, especially in live play. I can "look" (sometimes virtually when playing online) into someones personality and determine their motivations. I had not seen this guy before so he wouldnt necessarily know that I really would never make a raise like that without the nuts - but he WAS the type of guy that would call a bet like that without 'em. I mean, its easy to be a monday morning QB, and say it was a stroke of genius to overbet the pot like that - but mathematically, look at it...I made over 2 full stacks on that hand, $1100. The pot was what, $200 on the river? If I made a standard VB of like $100-$200, and he calls - then its a nice pot. I net like 2/5 of a buy in. The way ity played out, I made 2 buy ins. I have to be right on my read like 1/5 times for this risk to work. Here it did.

Goes back to my earlier theory on pushing with the nuts (based on reads) as I was coming up the ranks from 25NL to here....if you have a read that your villain is a gambooler, a maniac, an idiot or a sheriff, its a move thats just crazy enough to work. I think its EV is very large compared to a straight VB. I would be very interested to hear someone like Aisthesis's opinion on the matter..maybe a MOD can move this post to the strategy section and away from the complaining/bragging section where a true scholar like Ais wouldnt be caught dead....lol.

Nice pot!