Should I have stacked this guy???
December 28, 2007
Here’s a hand from the 6 max table where I am debating internally on whether I played this right or if I could have made more money from this hand by playing it differently. Just to give you a quick background, I stacked this player that I’m gonna tangle with earlier when I cracked his poorly played KK with my QJ (turned 2 pair, got it all in on the turn, obv). He wasn’t angry or anything in the chat. He acknowledged that he played poorly but just keep in mind that he and I already got into a big pot before.
Full Tilt Poker Game #4624345801: Table Sunrise (6 max) - $1/$2 - No Limit Hold’em - 20:40:52 ET - 2007/12/25
Seat 1: smithroger_777 ($302.75)
Seat 2: ludko ($200.20)
Seat 3: RecessRampage ($375.55)
Seat 4: CSDROCKS ($172.50)
Seat 5: End Your Trauma ($293)
Seat 6: nortmansdad ($67.05) <--- my nemesis
RecessRampage posts the small blind of $1
CSDROCKS posts the big blind of $2
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RecessRampage [Qc Qd]
End Your Trauma folds
nortmansdad calls $2
smithroger_777 folds
ludko folds
RecessRampage raises to $8 (from the SB)
CSDROCKS folds
nortmansdad calls $6
*** FLOP *** [2s Jd Tc]
RecessRampage bets $14
nortmansdad calls $14
Fairly standard so far. The opponent limps from EP, I raise from SB and he calls. Flop comes J high, I bet out and he calls. At this point, I figured he hit a piece of the flop. The guy only has $45 left behind after this call so I’m gonna bet regardless of what card comes on the turn…
*** TURN *** [2s Jd Tc] [Ah]
RecessRampage has 15 seconds left to act
RecessRampage bets $45
And this is where I think I made a mistake. I am fairly confident that he doesn’t have AJ. If he had AJ, he woulda raised preflop. He could have KQ even though I would be a little surprised that I don’t see a raise. And if he just had a naked ace, he wouldn’t call my flop bet which was essentially a quarter of his stack… I think. Of course, all these things are just my reads but that was what I shoulda thought during the hand… I obviously didn’t because I bet out the remainder of his stack when the ace falls, knowing that most likely, that ace didn’t help him. So in other words, I knew that the ace didn’t help him and yet I continue to put pressure on him.
This is what happens…
nortmansdad has 15 seconds left to act
nortmansdad: great card
nortmansdad folds
Uncalled bet of $45 returned to RecessRampage
RecessRampage wins the pot ($43.70)
The reason I think this was a mistake was I may have left $45 on the table. If I check the turn, I would at least be giving him the opportunity to bluff at me. If my read was what it was that I described above, his bet should not scare me. Because the board was starting to become fairly draw heavy, I don’t mind my bet but I also do wonder if I coulda taken some more of his money. He later reveals to me that he had KJ. If I check the turn, who knows if he woulda bet but I woulda loved to have given him that opportunity. But I don’t know. It’s probably so close that either way is excusable. Just another way for me to dissect my hand.
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