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28:44 – Joe Stapleton
Joe Stapleton
Joe Stapleton is a poker commentator and comedian. He co-hosts the Poker in the Ears podcast with James Hartigan.
Great discussion of my hand, as usual! I do want to point out that Carlos got a little mixed up about the villain. What I wrote is, “Usual $0.5/1 home game on an app. Villain is the whale of the game. Plays too many hands, calls too much post, and tends to be overly aggressive and make clumsy bluffs.” i.e. the antithesis of a “strong player”. 🙂 This knowledge should presumably alter some of the detailed conclusions, but I felt I could adjust the analysis appropriately.
My thinking in checking the flop was to protect my flop checking range by checking some strong hands, and this static flop seemed like a good choice to check what is the effective nuts against this player. I bet big on the turn for value and checked planning to call anything less than ~pot because I expected villain to bluff to represent the flush (like I said, he often makes clumsy bluffs). I’m unsure what I would have done had he shoved, and I can’t confidently say that I had a plan for that specific outcome in-game. Probably sigh-call because it’s generally a bad idea to fold top pair vs. this villain after deliberately showing weakness and trying to induce a bluff.
I think that villain was turning his hand into a bluff on the river, but I’m pretty confident that he doesn’t think in those terms.
Thanks, and sorry about that!
Great podcast, my first time listening.
Thanks very much!