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Originally Posted by vaz1981
Played perfectly. NH. Got $1275 in ahead, but you no longer had the nuts OTT. WP sir. Definitely minimized your losses.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it was David Sklansky who, in "The Theory of Poker", said "play like you can see your opponent's cards", or something along those lines. You sir have demonstrated this to perfection.
Pretty advanced level of thinking for a first poster. You must've done your homework.
Thanks, but honestly I think it's an example of what not to do. I would just fold a wet flop like this now, or preferably fold preflop. NEVER slowplay top quads on a wet board, it's just giving people odds to royalmine, and missing out on all the value you'll get from underquads.
I don't feel too bad though, since as you said the fundamental theory of poker says we make money when our opponents make mistakes, and IMO the villain in this hand made a pretty significant mistake - he could have 3bet his KJs for thin value preflop against my aces, but he just flatted.
I don't hate him just shipping it in here, ok sometimes a worse hand like AA will fold preflop and he'll have to content himself with just taking down the dead money but he's often going to stack the kind of fish who would call a preflop all-in holding AA in this spot. People think they're getting fancy by slowplaying 2-to-a-royal in this spot, but it's an ABC play - he'd have a better long-run EV if he just insta-blew preflop with this every time.
Last edited by BorisTheSpider; 04-09-2012 at 07:08 PM.