Another 50/100 Shot

I’ve only played this high once before, but it went very well that time. The game tonight wasn’t nearly as soft, but for a 50/100 game it wasn’t too tough. As usual, it was built around an FTP pro, in this case winner of the WSOP PLHE championship Nenad Medic. Though I didn’t realize it at the time, I played with Nenad on Day 1 of the WSOP main event this year. He wasn’t bad by any stretch, but as far as I know he’s not a regular in big online cash games, so I was expecting him to be kind of a tourney donk.

There were also a few other names I didn’t recognize at the table, which was tentatively a good sign, and one who I knew to be decent but probably not much better than I. The biggest pot I played was against him:

Full Tilt Poker, $50/$100 NL Hold’em Cash Game, 6 Players
LeggoPoker.com – Hand History Converter

CO: $20,541
BTN: $28,145
SB: $10,328
Hero (BB): $13,844
UTG: $23,340.15
MP: $29,093.30

Pre-Flop: 7 7 dealt to Hero (BB)
2 folds, CO raises to $350, BTN folds, SB calls $300, Hero raises to $1,400, CO calls $1,050, SB folds

Flop: ($3,150) 6 Q Q (2 Players)
Hero bets $1,444, CO raises to $3,400, Hero calls $1,956

Turn: ($9,950) J (2 Players)
Hero checks, CO checks

River: ($9,950) 3 (2 Players)
Hero checks, CO bets $9,950, Hero folds

Results: $9,950 Pot ($3 Rake)
CO mucked and WON $9,947 (+$5,147 NET)

This was the second time I’d squeezed against this guy’s CO open. The first time he 4-bet me pre-flop and I folded. I tanked on the river while playing, but looking at it now I’m pretty comfortable with the fold. The thing is that I think he thinks I have a medium pair, which means he could very well be bluffing. But in truth, I would probably play both AA and QJ in a similar fasion, because usually on the river he’s going to have either a bluff or a hand worth value betting. So whether he realizes it or not, 77 is at the bottom of my range and protected against bluffs by those stronger hands.

And yes, I would call here with AA, because he can be value betting worse. In fact, I think this is a great line with something like KK.

This was the biggest pot I lost, but the session didn’t go too well in general. I was out less than a buy-in, but at these stakes, that’s still enough to swamp my winnings on many other tables. Oh well.