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TheShek
Rock Star
Silver Level
This hand was a few years ago now.
I was playing a live MTT with a big, soft field of mostly pub poker players. I won a satellite into the tournament.
This hand came up in the early going with stacks of 300bb effective.
I'm in the BB with AA. There is one player who seems good and aggressive, he's been putting people in tough spots post flop. He's in the HJ. The button in this hand is a fish, limping and calling any sized raise. The tough player opens, the fish on the button calls, and I re-raise 15bb, hoping to isolate the fish but also declaring my hand.
HJ thinks for a while and calls, as does the button.
The flop comes 664 with two hearts. I have the Ace of hearts. I lead half pot, HJ and btn both call.
The turn is the 9 of hearts. I check, HJ bets half pot, the fish folds. I decide to check-raise, and the HJ 4 bets to half my stack. I think for a while and make the call, figuring he had plans to take the pot away from me preflop, and he had to have gotten really lucky to have hit this board.
The turn bricks. I check and HJ sets me almost all in. I hate the my check-raise on the turn now. I should have played pot control out of position with plans to call him down, but as played I ended up folding and keeping a good sized stack to play.
Is this a call? It's a polarising spot in my opinion. I think he either has a flush, full house or a bluff.
Any thoughts?
I was playing a live MTT with a big, soft field of mostly pub poker players. I won a satellite into the tournament.
This hand came up in the early going with stacks of 300bb effective.
I'm in the BB with AA. There is one player who seems good and aggressive, he's been putting people in tough spots post flop. He's in the HJ. The button in this hand is a fish, limping and calling any sized raise. The tough player opens, the fish on the button calls, and I re-raise 15bb, hoping to isolate the fish but also declaring my hand.
HJ thinks for a while and calls, as does the button.
The flop comes 664 with two hearts. I have the Ace of hearts. I lead half pot, HJ and btn both call.
The turn is the 9 of hearts. I check, HJ bets half pot, the fish folds. I decide to check-raise, and the HJ 4 bets to half my stack. I think for a while and make the call, figuring he had plans to take the pot away from me preflop, and he had to have gotten really lucky to have hit this board.
The turn bricks. I check and HJ sets me almost all in. I hate the my check-raise on the turn now. I should have played pot control out of position with plans to call him down, but as played I ended up folding and keeping a good sized stack to play.
Is this a call? It's a polarising spot in my opinion. I think he either has a flush, full house or a bluff.
Any thoughts?