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Interesting hand from Hustler .. Luda v Mike the Mouth .. I missed the PF action but both Flopped sets on 268.
Luda bet his set on the Flop .. Mike basically min-raised and Luda called .. Jack on the Turn
Mike bets out less than 1/2 pot with about 2x that behind .. Luda folds after a very long tank.
Who played the hand well? Well, you can argue it both ways IMO.
If you believe MM, he stated after the hand that he thought Luda had a double gutter, OESD or just trash. So he min-raised Flop and bet Turn as 'protection' or value trying to charge Luda for his draws.
What he didn't do was give Luda credit for a strong hand .. which he most certainly would go bet, bet, bet with based on his history. MM circumvented that by raising the Flop and betting the Turn. Good play or bad?
Luda ended up tank folding the Turn with an extremely strong hand for his very wide range. But can we also 'fault' him for not giving MM credit for putting him on his normal range of hands and just protection betting a lessor holding?
Who played it right? Based on each person's thought process at the time you'd suggest that Luda played it 'more' right than MM did. But that very well could be just results orientated. If either, not even both, Player has different thoughts then the hand would've played much different and you'd still have to give them 'credit' for a reasonable read on their opponent. GL