Villain is a very good HSMTT reg, often tops the leaderboards. This is rush, so no flow/hist/anything. I'm not thrilled to call pre, but I really get owned if I fold. Also, he insta jammed the river, which I think is pretty significant. Thoughts?


Full Tilt Poker FTOPS Event #3 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 9 players
The Official 2+2 Hand Converter By DeucesCracked Poker Videos

BTN: t8470 105.88 BBs
SB: t4485 56.06 BBs
BB: t4026 50.33 BBs
UTG: t4730 59.12 BBs
UTG+1: t5851 73.14 BBs
Hero (UTG+2): t8501 106.26 BBs
MP1: t5997 74.96 BBs
MP2: t5726 71.58 BBs
CO: t7529 94.11 BBs

Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is UTG+2 with A Q
2 folds, Hero raises to t240, 3 folds, BTN raises to t640, 2 folds, Hero calls t400

Flop: (t1400) 7 Q 9 (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets t880, Hero calls t880

Turn: (t3160) 6 (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets t1760, Hero calls t1760

River: (t6680) K (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets t5190 all in,

id check min raise call flop
as played quite close, think i may muck the river tho

such an easy fold pre. easy fold on the river.

i sigh fold pre i think, im really unsure on rush strat right now tho esp vs regs

c/r/c the flop, we have decent equity when called and playing the c/c guessing game sucks as we have discovered

i kinda wanna puke fold the turn he has to have exactly kings with the ks for us to win money if we hit our flush and we shud almost never have the best hand on the turn given we have the ace of spades (reduces his barrelling flush draw hands)

as played fold the river, i think a lot of his weaker value hands have checked back at some stage(jj/tt/ak 1 spade), thus leaving airballs and nutted hands, its so early i dont see too many airballs in his range