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Originally Posted by Chumbardo
What's funny is if you did a reverse hand history where you played the king high flush this way and got raised on the river, everyone would be saying it's a snap fold.
Very good point. I would bet a good amount that more than half of the people who are saying this play is "so so so so bad" and total spew would say something almost exactly like "snap fold. duh lol V always has the nuts, easy fold and dont even think twice about it" if this was posted from the V's point of view.
At first glance it does look odd, if not terrible, but after some thought I really like it. One thing I dont like about it though is the fact that its a 1-3 table. I feel like a 2-4 or 2-5 table would be perfect for it; 'older man fish trying to play good' probably folds here 100% of the time. I feel like at 1-2 or 1-3 youll run into the '"what do you mean how could I have called? I had a flush!!" guy' who calls with 67ss a little too often.
I wonder if its worth betting something like 700 or 650 instead of the 800 shove. I dont know if that looks exactly like what it is, but I cant imagine too many V that call 650 but fold to 800. I could be wrong though, I dont play 1-3.
I say good hand, sir. Bordering on maniacal but still good. Also, added meta benefit: when you do get called and muck, you will look INSANE to most people. Shoving 800 into a 100 dollar pot and then just mucking would look bat **** to probably everyone at the table and that could gain you some big calls in the future. Small point but still