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I can find a call there against someone playing aggro. You are repping a flush only, you are checking back most medium made hands if you really have them. Probably an ace as well. Villain asked himself, " why did he bet? " and decided bluff was likely enough
The problem though is that most of the time,
Hero will be bluffing with a hand that beats King High!!!! .
Board is 2c 7d 8d Jc 4d
Hero raised UTG, if we give hero a ridiculous raising range and apply it evenly lets say his range is:
45s+, 64s+, JT+, 55+, Axs, Kxs, Qxs
that is a huge range. Now, lets see how K5hh fairs against this range on this board
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Text results appended to pokerstove.txt
248 games 0.086 secs 2,883 games/sec
Board: 2c 7d 8d Jc 4d
Dead:
equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 88.306% 87.90% { 55+, A2s+, K2s+, Q2s+, JTs, ATo+, KTo+, QTo+, JTo }
Hand 1: 11.694% { Kh5h }
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So even against a super wide range by Hero, we see that hero calling with K5hh is just really really bad. It is lighting money on fire because more often than naught, Hero is bluffing with the best hand!
I think too often in these spots thinking players level themselves with "Well, it doesn't make any sense, he's got to be bluffing..."
The thinking player is so fixated on his awesome soul read that he forgets that in certain spots, the bluff still beats him!!!!
And this is one of those spots. Hero's triple barrel here is going to beat villain 88%+ of the time. Villain just got super lucky that this was the one spot where his K5hh was good. But 9 times out of 10 he loses here to a hand Hero decided to turn into a bluff, like 55 or 97 or A3 or KT....
Last edited by dgiharris; 12-17-2014 at 10:56 PM.