Ummm… OK, Thanks

PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em, $6.00 BB (6 handed) – Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Hero (Button) ($609)
SB ($1129.65)
BB ($190)
UTG ($636)
MP ($387)
CO ($782)

Preflop: Hero is Button with A, 4
2 folds, CO bets $13.80, Hero raises to $33, 2 folds, CO calls $19.20

Flop: ($75) 6, K, 4 (2 players)
CO checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($75) J (2 players)
CO bets $54, Hero calls $54

River: ($183) 3 (2 players)
CO checks, Hero bets $142, CO raises to $432, Hero raises to $522 (All-In), CO calls $90

Total pot: $1227 | Rake: $3

Results:
Hero had A, 4 (flush, Ace high).
CO had Q, A (high card, Ace).
Outcome: Hero won $1224

Seems pretty random for him to call the last $90 with A-high, but I guess it’s worthwhile just to have the information or something? It would have to be a pretty sick bluff on my part.

3 thoughts on “Ummm… OK, Thanks”

  1. I was playing $2/$5 at the Mirage late one night 3-4 years ago when the guy in seat 9 bet into a flushy board, the guy in seat 5 raised, the guy in seat 9 reraised for all but his last $5 chip (which he refused to put in after being asked by the dealer and his opponent if he was all-in), the guy in seat 5 reraised all-in, and the guy in seat 9 folded and left the game.

    There was a lot of discussion afterwards about that, but we all agreed he must have been bluffing the 3-bet. The question was whether keeping the ast $5 chip was a tell, not that it mattered in this case because seat 5 had the stone cold nuts and was going to shove anyway.

    • Haha, good story and a good point. I can just imagine some belligerent old man refusing to put that last $5 into the pot.

      I think the tell is particularly significant in tournaments, if a guy could have plausibly shoved the river but chooses instead to leave himself ten or so BBs.

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