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Originally Posted by dozer
Playing a hand out at a 2/5 cash game I was in yesterday ...
Hero: 44 in SB with $1400 or so behind.
Villain: BTN, $1200 behind, rec player, relatively new to the table from a broken game ... looks like a former bodybuilder. Loud. Brash. Bald ... but TAG for sure. He has never been out of line. Not once.
UTG+2 opens for $15, two calls to Villain who splashes a bunch of chips. Turns out to be $55.
Hero calls with the intention to set-mine. There are two other callers but these players will not matter in the hand.
Flop is a beautiful 842, two spades.
Hero checks (??), checks to Villain who splashes $90. Hero raises to $205. Villain INSTA-SHOVES FOR $1200 AND LITERALLY JUMPS OUT OF HIS SEAT IN EXCITEMENT.
But wait, there's more ... as hero tanks, Villain sits back in his seat but yaps and yaps about his hand, eventually turns to Hero and says "I'll be completely honest with you, I'm on a flush draw!"
So everrrrrything about this suggests the Villain has Hero beat ... but Hero has top set.
Who's folding? Who's already decided on a snap-call?
Snap call for me. All the bolded actions above are overtly representing strength, which to me comes from weakness/uneasiness. If I am dead wrong, then he could be playing AA and believe he has the best hand. Very rarely are we set-over-set here, so even if I'm wrong, I'm right.
EDIT: Guess when I'm wrong, I'm wrong. I still wouldn't regret my decision. Reload and keep playing, villain will give it all back anyway, judging by this hand.