dsvw56

WOW is all I have to say about this.

This was playing $1/$2 PL.

I was in the CO with KK which I promptly raised the max with.

The villain was in the BB.


A little back story on the villain here. He's a very very solid player. He's one of only about 3 players at this casino who's play I respect. We've played together on more than a few occasions and have become pretty good friends. As far as I know, he has alot of respect for my game as well

So back to the hand.

I raise the pot from the CO. There was a few limpers before me so I think it was $11.

The villain calls from the BB and the limpers fold.

The flop comes 4c-4s-Ks

Now I could not have asked for a better flop than that and to top it all off the villain here comes out firing for the full pot.

In to the tank I go. Now not because I'm concerned of the strength of my hand, but I'm trying to figure out how to get max value out of this hand as I am absolutely positive he has AK here. So I'm going through whether I should call here or raise. I take about 2 full minutes here before deciding I need to raise.

Now here's where some of you are going "WHAT??". I just flopped just about the absolute nuts and I'm raising. If ever there was a situation to slowplay, surely this is it. But here is why I raised, I absolutely do not want to see another spade fall on the turn. Now you're saying "what an idiot, a full house beats a flush." But thats not why I don't want to see a spade fall. If I just call here and a spade falls on the turn its going to kill my action. Think about it for a minute. What could I possibly smooth call with on the flop besides something like AsQs. If I flat call here, my opponent is certainly going to put me on the flush draw and the hand is over if another spade falls. If I raise him here though, it gives him a chance to put all his money in the middle while he thinks he still has the best hand.

So I raise about 1.5x his bet, not quite a full pot bet and then he goes in to the tank. I'm sitting there just waiting for it. I'm eyeing up his chips, thinking about how nice they're going to look in my stack. Then the unthinkable happened. He flashes me his AK and throws it in the muck. I go ahead and show him my flopped boat. Nice lay down.

He later told me that if it had been anyone else at the table, he would have pushed in a heartbeat. Bah, the curse of having a strong image.

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Macthompson

I like to say at live games there's "reads" and there's "reads"

the stuff strangers dont know

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Jepulator

wow thats nice. I like your think tank, i had a similar situation the other day online where a flush draw fell on the turn and killed my action. thanks for the incite : )

Deco

good idea raising it I didnt think of how the 3rd spade would look.
Probably as I don't play with complex players enough to have to think about what there thinking I have as most opponents I play arent thinking about my cards.

How were you so sure he was on AK though?

Also the spade would have probably stopped him from commiting his whole stack but he may have thought you had a high pocket pair which is anouther possibility

dsvw56

I knew he had AK only because I know him well enough that he wouldn't lead back in to me with less than that after I raised pre-flop. He most liikely would have been looking to check/call me down with KQ or the like unless I put a lot of pressure on, and then he'd probably fold it. Also if he had something bigger, such as the trip 4's, he would have went for the check raise.

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RadRandy420

on AP one time i was at a $1/$2 table and i had $50. after a few hands i had built up to just over $150. i get dealt AK and i call the BB. now the flop is AAK and some guy goes all in for over $300. so i call him for my whole $150 and he had 33. the next 2 cards were 3.........3

ARGHHHHHHHHH

it seems that this happens more often on AP than any site... i watch a lot of final tables and it happens all the time... way more than in real life!

Macthompson

real life is online card playing in slow mo,u play 50 hands in 1 hour online,live u play 12 hands in 1 hour
now u understand?

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dodgygeeza

Now that's a bad beat. Unlucky