There was a great 25/50 deep game going last night, with two really big fish sitting on $10,000+ each. I had to compete with three very good players for them, but it was still a great spot. Unfortunately, I missed a pretty important bluff against one of the sharks.
The less good of the two fish doubled up the other one and quit not long after. For some reason, one of the good players left as well- apparently one soft spot wasn’t enough for him. The button in this hand is the fish, the SB a good player:
Full Tilt No-Limit Hold’em, $50.00 BB (4 handed) – Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
Button ($16848)
SB ($16386)
Foucault (BB) ($10799.80)
UTG ($11847)
Preflop: Foucault is BB with J
, 10
1 fold, Button raises to $175, SB calls $150, Foucault calls $125
Flop: ($525) K
, 2, Q
(3 players)
SB bets $405, Foucault calls $405, 1 fold
Turn: ($1335) 8 (2 players)
SB bets $905, Foucault calls $905
River: ($3145) J (2 players)
SB checks, Foucault checks
Total pot: $3145 | Rake: $2
Results in white below:
SB had K, A (one pair, Kings).
Foucault had J, 10 (one pair, Jacks).
Outcome: SB won $3143
This isn’t a standard call pre-flop but with a fish in the hand I’m trying to get into pots. While I suspect SB has something, there are very few strong hands I would expect him to play like this. Especially on the turn, I’m calling not just for my draw but because I think I can sometimes steal on the river. Basically I was thinking SB would sometimes have something like a flush draw.
When the flush came in on the river but he checked, it confused me. I didn’t think he’d check a flush, and he probably would have bluffed if he had nothing, so I can concluded that my pair doesn’t have much show down value. More importantly, the bet bet check line means he probably isn’t calling. It was a great spot to turn my hand into a bluff but I just didn’t pull the trigger. Granted AK was a little stronger than I expected from him but I still think there’s a good chance he folds it.
Why no off-suit A on the river?!?!