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1:43am: Although not often enough, sometimes you come across a hand and a board so beautiful that you know you’re going to get paid off no matter what. The way this hand played out also illustrates the deceptiveness of not raising with aces in heads up sit n gos.
Here is a picture of the board (before any betting on the river card took place) in a hand that I played 20 minutes ago, as well as the corresponding hand history — followed by the hand history of the last significant hand. The reason the previous hand is important is because I wanted my opponent to think (on this hand) that I was upset about having to fold in the previous hand, so I basically mimicked his actions from the previous hand. I felt like he wouldn’t take me seriously because (a) I didn’t raise pre flop, therefore the likelihood of me having an ace was less and (b) since I basically mirrored his actions on the previous hand, I felt like he wouldn’t take me seriously.
Previous Hand:
Seat 1: smokinmoon (1410 in chips)
Seat 2: trujm (1590 in chips)
trujm: posts small blind 15
smokinmoon: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to trujm [5s Ts]
trujm: calls 15
smokinmoon: checks
*** FLOP *** [Tc 9c 4c]
smokinmoon: checks
trujm: checks
*** TURN *** [Tc 9c 4c] [4s]
smokinmoon: checks
trujm: bets 60
smokinmoon: raises 60 to 120
trujm: folds
Uncalled bet (60) returned to smokinmoon
smokinmoon collected 180 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 180 | Rake 0
Board [Tc 9c 4c 4s]
Seat 1: smokinmoon (big blind) collected (180)
Seat 2: trujm (button) (small blind) folded on the Turn
Current Hand:
Seat 1: smokinmoon (1500 in chips)
Seat 2: trujm (1500 in chips)
smokinmoon: posts small blind 15
trujm: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to trujm [As 5d]
smokinmoon: calls 15
trujm: checks
*** FLOP *** [Ah 9d Ac]
trujm: checks
smokinmoon: checks
*** TURN *** [Ah 9d Ac] [Jd]
trujm: checks
smokinmoon: bets 30
trujm: raises 60 to 90
smokinmoon: calls 60
*** RIVER *** [Ah 9d Ac Jd] [Ad]
trujm: bets 1380 and is all-in
smokinmoon: calls 1380 and is all-in
*** SHOW DOWN ***
trujm: shows [As 5d] (four of a kind, Aces)
smokinmoon: shows [9h Jc] (a full house, Aces full of Jacks)
trujm collected 3000 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3000 | Rake 0
Board [Ah 9d Ac Jd Ad]
Seat 1: smokinmoon (button) (small blind) showed [9h Jc] and lost with a full house, Aces full of Jacks
Seat 2: trujm (big blind) showed [As 5d] and won (3000) with four of a kind, Aces
This “over betting with the goods” tactic works very well, in my experience. I knew he either (a) had a jack, (b) slowplayed KK or QQ, or (c) hit a flush on the river. If it’s scenario (a), then he might think that I also had a jack and that I didn’t want to chop the pot, so I would put him to a decision in an attempt to win the whole thing. If it’s scenario (b), then he would know the only thing that beats him realistically is quads, and he would have no choice to pay it off. In this scenario, it would also be hard to put me on an ace since I didn’t raise pre flop. If it’s scenario (c), then I believe I’m actually better off over betting the pot than putting in a small value bet, as people are more likely to perceive over bets as extreme strength or extreme weakness, which would give me a crying chance at him not buying what I’m selling. All things considered, I felt the play here was to go all in, as the “implied odds”, so to speak, of me getting paid off on this hand was relatively high.
Thankfully, I was right as the most likely scenario (a) turned out to be the case and I was able to get paid off.
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