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mikeisthebestever
Rock Star
Silver Level
I was playing at a 1/2 game last night and was wondering about my play in this hand.
4 Limps to me on the big blind 200 effective, I raise to 10 owith aces. [My sizing is small because they have been playing timidly and I dont want it to fold around.]
Middle position acts strangely, difficult to describe, but I felt like he wanted to 3-bet and decided just to flat. Something about the way he acted and played made me think he had kings and only kings.
Flop is Q 4 9 rainbow.
Because I was fairly certain he only had kings here, I decided to check for deception, assuming he would bet for value and confirm my read if I was right. He makes almost a pot size bet of 25, I call with the intention to snap shove any turn card aside from a K or A, for value and to prevent action killing cards from losing me money.
Turn is 9. About 70-80 in the pot. We have about 120 behind. I calmly announced allin almost before the turn card hit the table.
He goes into the tank.
Anyway, he tanks, calls, rolls over kings, im good and river is clean for a double up.
Im not sure what my question is, nor am I sure if it was a good read or very VERY lucky. I guess I just wanted to see if you guys think live reads can be that reliable in soft games? What do you think about the shove? I think specifically kings are the ONLY hand that might be worse that calls there. Obviously a cooler but did I play this hand well long term?
4 Limps to me on the big blind 200 effective, I raise to 10 owith aces. [My sizing is small because they have been playing timidly and I dont want it to fold around.]
Middle position acts strangely, difficult to describe, but I felt like he wanted to 3-bet and decided just to flat. Something about the way he acted and played made me think he had kings and only kings.
Flop is Q 4 9 rainbow.
Because I was fairly certain he only had kings here, I decided to check for deception, assuming he would bet for value and confirm my read if I was right. He makes almost a pot size bet of 25, I call with the intention to snap shove any turn card aside from a K or A, for value and to prevent action killing cards from losing me money.
Turn is 9. About 70-80 in the pot. We have about 120 behind. I calmly announced allin almost before the turn card hit the table.
He goes into the tank.
Anyway, he tanks, calls, rolls over kings, im good and river is clean for a double up.
Im not sure what my question is, nor am I sure if it was a good read or very VERY lucky. I guess I just wanted to see if you guys think live reads can be that reliable in soft games? What do you think about the shove? I think specifically kings are the ONLY hand that might be worse that calls there. Obviously a cooler but did I play this hand well long term?
