You each decided that the other person's hand values didn't converge.
GG forgets on the flop that no hand in your capping range folds, except maybe KQ. He's building a huge pot which will force him to call down, which he was planning on doing any way.
On the river, you're bluffing? You get value out of AT and A6. Would he call with K
X
? You've big spades blocked pretty well. He's nuts to raise because all he beats are bluffs which can't call. Given how the match went, I don't think you fold anything he beats. Then, you make the b/c, I guess figuring he has spew bluffs in his range and has forgotten that you're never folding. Both of you put in two big bets on the river in a spot that should have checked through.
Since neither of you guys play a lot of HUHU (I think), the lines look strange. Many HU players work hard to avoid turning showdown hands into bluffs or to not bias their opponent's ranges to "hands that beat mine". Given that you make the A high b/c on the river and he spews that much with an underpair, maybe the hand is normal.
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This hand makes me think back to my match where I'm value betting top and 2nd pair and he's not raising me with two pair. I'm kicking myself for "thin value betting" hands that are big dogs to the range of hands he was actually calling with. Every match is different. You see a lot of issues posting hands on the HU forum b/c it is hard to capture the flow of a match in the posts.
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Funny aside, here's how to get your money in on the flop with the best hand.
Text results appended to pokerstove.txt
990 games 0.005 secs 198,000 games/sec
Board: 9s 8s 7c
Dead:
equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 64.747% 63.84% 00.91% 632 9.00 { AsJs }
Hand 1: 35.253% 34.34% 00.91% 340 9.00 { 4c4h }
as almost a 2:1 dog.
Last edited by DougL; 10-03-2010 at 01:01 PM.