made me laugh

As much as you guys are hating on this play, and to be honest i thought this was a joke at first, I dont think its horrible, esp when you throw in the effect it will have in terms of metagame and the table dynamic/ur image.

It looks like you will have to make TT-AA fold here, but this line is def. believeable as a made hand that was played slow until riv.

River looks very valuetown by the villain so the raise really sells this well.

Also, since villain is decent he might just give u a very polarized range of nothing or nuts and throw you some change by hero calling with some random BS.

Still not 100% sold on the play but I dont mind it now.

Does anybody has the video to this hand that was once on pokerstrategy? Pm me

You can't have nothing that's the point.

As played I think have to fold river (unless you think villain grossly overplays AK?). Problem is you aren't repping anything except 22 or 66? You can't rep AA/KK very well cause you'd almost surely reraise pre with the real possibility of having 2 opponents (UTG caller) , plus would you really ship those like that on river? I think you rep way more bluffs.

hope he folded...but if I'm in his position with AA, it will be a very very hard fold on that board. From villain's perspective, if you know he has AA/KK why overshove and risk a fold when you can get an easy 2.5/3x raise called.

If the river was a 3 or 5, I think your line has a really good chance to make him fold AA.

(of course this is all ignoring leveling wars, but seemed dynamics were straight forward)

would much rather bluff with 45, 78, 58 here

What stakes do you normally play? I'm guessing rare or medium rare and not medium well or well.

Due to my reference about overplaying AK? That never happens in high stakes. What stakes do you play?

Do you advocate OP's attempt to push someone off a highly likely AA or BOAT without being able to rep much at all for a $20k stack? lol

From the outside it looks ridiculous, and common analysis clearly indicates this is not +EV. If opponent says "I call with my boat" (like 90%+ would), OP probably bangs his head in the wall repeatedly, and leaves immediately. But it wasn't a common situation which OP read correctly. It was a matter of testicular fortitude....not poker analysis.

Props to OP, glad it worked out. Clearly a brag thread which I took literal (not unusual).

since someone else bumped this...seems appropriate:
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^this

Girah had a pair of 4 across and ignored the pips in the middle. Nh

Did Nionio really play in this hand..?