Background: It was 4am and I was 4-tabling some PP SNGs. On this table, I decided I would play every pocket pair as long as the raise wasn't a huge amount of my stack and see how lucky I could get.
Here I am over-playing my pocket pair and lucking out on the river. I thought there was a REALLY good chance he had a 9 here since he was a blind, has only C/C so far, still called my big raise, and there's no flush/straight possibilities.
Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t15 (9 handed)
MP3 (t755)
CO (t770)
Button (t600)
SB (t930)
BB (t715)
Hero (t725)
UTG+1 (t1875)
MP1 (t935)
MP2 (t695)
Preflop: Hero is UTG with , .
Hero calls t15, 3 folds, MP3 calls t15, CO calls t15, Button calls t15, SB completes, BB checks.
Flop: (t87.50) , , (6 players)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero checks, MP3 checks, CO checks, Button bets t15, SB folds, BB calls t15, Hero raises to t120, MP3 folds, CO folds, Button folds, BB calls t105.
Turn: (t342.50) (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets t580, BB calls [t595] .
River: (t922.50) (2 players)
Final Pot: t922.50
Results in white below:
BB has 9d 5d (three of a kind, nines).
Hero has 8c 8h (full house, eights full of nines).
Outcome: Hero wins t922.50.