You sir are a genius.

River was Q

Hero flips.

V1 flips over 54 and yells "flush" in delight. Hero is ready to puke

I think you played the hand fine. Your only decision that would have saved your stack is to fold pre. Besides that, the cards just play out with you getting stacked. No way around it.

LOL.

Look at it this way: by flatting flop you allowed villain to gain like a 20% extra equity edge when the rest of the money went in.

If you raised/gii on the flop he would've had only a 4% edge

Indeed that is true for those hands in his range that had 2 spades including this one of course. But for the set/2-pair hands in the range, wouldnt you say the equity was reduced, as the probability of upgrading to a boat reduced?

Perfectly executed, as many recommended.
Well played, unfortunate the flush hit.

You played the hand fine on all streets. Cooler gonna cooler.

That's also true but by flatting flop you don't extract extra value from these types hands you are currently crushing.

The first thing I thought was how in the world are so many 1/2 players this deep??

I like a raise on the flop to 200 or so leaving you with a PSB on the turn if he checks to you. As played turn decision was easy all in.

Is it just me or am I the only one who thinks villain only has sets and 54s here? Hard to imagine him calling pre with a hand like 63 or overplaying an overpair here. If we can in fact narrow his range to sets and 54, I think flatting flop and turn and shoving river is optimal. If board pairs, you can fold. If board pairs, and he shows weakness on river you can shove to get him off a chop

There's only 6 cards that can kill your action, but they shouldn't really be that scary to villain anyways. If you had 54, he was behind anyways

If he has overpairs in his range and won't fold unless reraise is big, I'd reraise small

lol...I certainly didn't see that one coming.

wow thats like the worst cooler ever. Shoulda went south a bit when you transferred tables. Whats the max buy in? $500? Cuz my casinos are $300 buy in haha.

Max buy in at the Borgata is $300

Yes, indeed. Thanks for this, something to keep in mind for sure as I work on my game.

I don't mean to be a bit off topic here but you said your leak was playing connectors when deep stacked. I always thought that when you're deep stacked the value of connectors go up and TPTK hands goes down?

Yes, indeed but I would think playing them too often OOP is not ideal. My tendency is that I raise/limp from EP/MP too often with these when my stack is deep. In this particular case, it was reasonably ok as it was from the CO so only had the button to worry about, and he folded.

Had the button gotten involved and the flop was not so gin, then its not a great spot to be in. From the CO, I think the bottom starting hand should be 76 or 87 as it can hit a lot more flops hard.

Flatting turn is also an interesting option especially given the hand he had, if I had somehow magically guessed he had that exact hand

I definitely thought about 54s/54o being in his range but in the heat of the moment at the table did not consider the 54 exactly. Given my own hand vs his overall range which was heavier in sets/2P than just 1 combo of 54s which was freerolling ahead, I think an AI on the turn was the best move.

Given that the river was a , its also possible flatting the turn may have caused him to check the river as he may put me on a higher spade draw (something like A6)

Maybe he could have folded on a river shove, maybe not. He would probably think his hand is too good to fold in that spot.

Overall, as many people remarked, there was no way around this cooler except folding PF.

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