Got a piece of it...
1/2 Friday night
V is a young woman who plays in a home game with two other players at the table who are home game bad (and donating generously to the rest of us). V seems to be the best of the bunch but that only pegs her as competent. (In contrast, one of the other guys asked me after about an hour of sitting next to me whether a flush beats a straight.) She has hit some hands and is up to about $350.
Hero has been absolutely card dead for the hour that V has been at the table. I don't think that I have raised once and I am pretty sure that I have not won a hand. I have $270.
Hero is dealt JJ in UTG+2. I raise to $12.
Two MP callers, V calls from SB, BB calls.
Flop ($55): J
10
7
Check, check, Hero bets $40, fold, fold, V calls, fold.
Turn ($135): 6
V checks, Hero bets $75, V calls.
River ($285): 7
V checks, Hero goes all in for $143, V calls.
V mucks when she sees Hero's full house but says she had a seven. Let us assume she had A7, probably offsuit.
Analysis
Villain's first big mistakes are pre-flop. First, she probably figured she was "priced in" to call the $12 bet after two other people called. The fact that A7 is almost always crushed here after a raise and two callers does not enter her mind. Second, she is playing the entire hand out of position so even if she were to hit some miracle flop, her ability to get paid is severely compromised. Third, and most importantly, I had not raised a hand in the past hour and now I am doing so from EP. JJ is probably the lowest part of my range, based on what she has seen from me so far.
The flop comes and she falls into the title trap ("I got a piece of it"). I c-bet and she figures that I could be bluffing (into four callers semi-OOP
) or that she could hit an A or another seven, so she calls. She never considers what I may have and how her pair of sevens is doing against that range. The turn is more of the same, although she now has half the odds of catching a miracle card (that, in fact, does her no good whatsoever). The river comes, she gets her miracle card...and she pays off the remainder of my stack.
Last edited by sao; 09-18-2012 at 12:27 PM.
Reason: Added title