Had a fun heads-up matchup, as we both had some room to play starting off with just under 20bb each.
I started to get short, called AI 55>A4o
He was now short, I shoved AI Q9s<JJ
I was really short, shoved AI 107o>K6o
I got back to even and then this happened:
PRE- He was mostly allowing me to limp my bottom shoving range vs him, thus lowering my variance. I like to do this when I have a little room to play post-flop vs a lesser-skilled villain.
FLOP- I led with a min-bet bc I felt he was floating way too much, otherwise he doesn’t have a lot of equity to call us with. We would be hoping he has most of his 10x, lower flush-draws and a couple of gut-shots. He was shoving over the top of my limps around 20%, so he doesn’t have any Ax, pairs, or much Kx.
TURN- I checked back wanting to allow him to bluff the river, which he was doing w/ a reckless abandon. He has such a small value range here and we have the virtual nuts so I want to let him catch something or bluff.
RIVER- He leads out, as expected. Now a few hands before this I typed in the chat (I hadn’t been to an Ignition final table since last year, and was surprised the chatbox was no longer blocked) “you bluff too much”. This played into my decision to raise AI, thinking I might even get hero-called by as low as Qx. Plus a shove looks bluffier than a min-raise. I remember thinking, GEEZ I hope he slow-played a baby-KING.
Last edited by Freedom Grinder; 07-12-2017 at 08:50 PM.