This was a fun hand. It was against this guy who kinda irks me. He’s a full ring grinder, meaning that he plays 9-handed NLHE games exclusively for his income. Needless to say, he’s a pretty uncreative nit with a bit of an inflated ego because he can make the occasional move. Like, he’ll bluff in a pretty standard spot and then show it or talk trash or whatever. So here’s a play I ran on him today:
Full Tilt Poker, $5/$10 NL Hold’em Cash Game, 6 Players
LeggoPoker.com – Hand History Converter
BTN: $1,976
SB: $289.95
Hero (BB): $1,074.75
UTG: $208.75
MP: $1,000
CO: $1,000
Pre-Flop: A
6 dealt to Hero (BB)
2 folds, CO raises to $20, SB calls $15, Hero calls $10
Flop: ($60) K
4 7 (3 Players)
SB checks, Hero checks, CO bets $30, SB folds, Hero calls $30
Turn: ($120) 8
(2 Players)
Hero checks, CO checks
River: ($120) 7
(2 Players)
Hero bets $74, CO raises to $148, Hero raises to $450, CO folds
Results: $416 Pot ($3 Rake)
Hero mucked A 6 and WON $413 (+$215 NET)
I’m not sure what to make of the min-raise pre-flop or the half-pot flop bet. I was planning to check-raise the flop, but I decided that with such appealing odds, I would just call. Then I was going to check-raise the turn, figuring I’d get him off something like KQ-AA. When he checked back the turn, I was thinking his range would consist mostly of air, pairs less than a K, and sometimes a pot-controlled top pair or boat. By leading the river, I can rep top pair+ and get him off all but his top pair+ hands.
His river min-raise is never a bluff, but I did think it was a kind of thin value play with like AK or AA planning on folding to a 3-bet. So that’s what I did. I would have done it for value with any 7. I don’t really believe him, but here’s what he told me he had:
Nit: 44
Foucaut: what? no way you had 44
Nit: u had quads?
Foucault: sure did
Nit: nh
Foucault: good fold
Nit: ez fold
Obviously an awful fold if he really had 44, which I must admit is not inconsistent with his line up to the river. But since, as I said, I was 3-betting trips for value, folding a boat there is terrible. Granted it is pretty rare for me to bluff here. I could probably count on one hand the number of times I’ve 3-bet bluffed the river. But it would have been really sweet if I didn’t have auto-muck turned on and I could have showed him my cards. Oh well. And look what happened the very next hand:
Full Tilt Poker, $5/$10 NL Hold’em Cash Game, 6 Players
LeggoPoker.com – Hand History Converter
MP: $2,083
CO: $174.95
Hero (BTN): $1,284.75
SB: $198.75
BB: $1,000
UTG: $1,000
Pre-Flop: 7 7 dealt to Hero (BTN)
2 folds, CO raises to $20, Hero raises to $75, 2 folds, CO calls $55
Flop: ($165) A 7 7 (2 Players)
CO bets $99.95 and is All-In, Hero calls $99.95
Turn: ($364.90) 5 (2 Players – 1 is All-In)
River: ($364.90) K (2 Players – 1 is All-In)
Results: $364.90 Pot ($3 Rake)
CO showed 3 3 (two pair, Sevens and Threes) and LOST (-$174.95 NET)
Hero showed 7 7 (four of a kind, Sevens) and WON $361.90 (+$186.95 NET)
Legit quads!
was this vs 21sean?