Villains:
SB: On tilt. In for 3500. Just got stacked again. Same player as earlier as the CO in post 195.~$500
BB: Solid player. I know he fears me. I had been on his direct left most of the day in the 5 seat, but when the 8 seat opened up I moved. He commented that he is ecstatic I'm no longer on his right, that I handcuff him etc. He has well over 2.5k
Me: Spewtard. ~1.3k effective. While the villains in question are familiar with my overall style, today I had been relatively quiet (playing <20% of hands) and at showdowns generally had "premium" holdings.
Straddled pot. I raise 40 UTG+1 with 6
4
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This is the type of hand that I don't mind playing OOP. I'll rarely open limp with it, but will on occasion raise from ep. I won't too often go for a straddle steal this early, but the table is very deep (at least $12-15k on the table) and I'm comfortable playing big stack poker with it.
Obvious reasons include a more than reasonable claim should an Ace or King fall, and a bit of deception if the board comes low. To me, these are generally very easy hands to play and also very easy to abandon if a steal attempt goes awry.
It's certainly not a standard play I make but worth adding to the arsenal when used judicially. If I'm being particularly spewy in a given day or I know I had 0 bluffability, I'll stay away from these types of plays.
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Everyone folds to the SB and BB who call.
Flop 5
6
7
Checked to me I bet 115.
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Pair and open ended straight draw. I've hit this flop about as hard as I can hit it. Since I'm c betting just about every flop checked to me, no way I am checking behind here.
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Call, call. This is a bit surprising.
Turn 3
SB shoves 300. BB tank flats.
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Interesting. Based on villains I am not too concerned with the BB having the nuts here. He isn't looking to play pots with me, and I doubt he is going to cold call 8BB Preflop with 89, particularly with the straddler still left to act. I'm not completely discounting it from his range, but I don't think it shows up very often. 84/34 pretty much never show. And I'm pretty sure he is putting me on a large overpair at this point, so the most obvious and most likely holding is a set. Could be chopping if he has 44, and I doubt he is calling the SB shove (who very easily can have 2 pair, a straight, etc.) with 99-QQ. KK/AA (and prob QQ) would likely have been announced here preflop.
I'm hoping he has a set or 88, because I may very well be relying on the side pot to make money here.
I also know how he thinks, and with my ep raise in pretty sure he isn't putting me on a straight here. If I shove I don't see how he can get away...
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I shove for 900 more. BB tanks.
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The longer he tanks the more I want the call. Eventually he calls, and (music to my ears) asks "do you have a straight?). I nod. Now to avoid a paired board...
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River 8
He shows 66. I scoop a ~$2900 pot. Dunno SB's holdings (I assume 2 pair).
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After the hand he is a bit stunned. "I couldn't put you on that. Not with your EP raise. You raised it, right? You opened for $40?"
"Yup"
"I thought you had AA or KK. The way you played it. I just couldn't put you on that hand..."
"That was kind of the point...I was hoping you put me on a big PP," I try to say without sounding like a dick.
(Can't stand it when someone wins or loses a big pot and someone at the table, particularly when not in the hand, talk about how one player got lucky or another made a mistake or another outplayed someone else. This is a bit different because the guy who just lost is the one asking. Still, it's so hard to strike that tone between conciliatory and matter-of-fact without pouring salt in wounds or acting like an ass.)
He carried on for a bit. I encourage him that against me he has to call. That he wasn't exactly drawing dead and still had plenty of equity when the hand went in. I got lucky, hand was a cooler.
"No, man. It wasn't luck. We both know it..."
He gets up and cools down a bit. I do feel a wee but bad, but i look down at my new mountain of chips and instantly perk up again. Strange how that works.
Sometimes, it pays to be a Spewtard.