Very interesting hand! Nice call and strong hold on the river. It's an interesting spot to review again and see what kind of strategies make sense given how the hand played out. Obviously we got max value, but I wonder if we check back turn and we see that 6, what ends up happening. JC is good enough to realize that it's a great bluff card of course, but he probably also doesn't think you are folding very often... also interesting to think about which of these lines make us the most profit if we played then 10x or 100x.Conclusion:
$25/$50 game at the Bike last night. Playing a bit more like $50/$100.
4 hours into the game, hero has bought in for $2k, is sitting at $18k, sunrunning.
V is Johnny Chan, in for $5k, sitting at $11k or so. We are 9-handed.
Hero has in the CO.
V is UTG+2. Opens for $300.
Folds to hero.
Hero decides on a standard 3-bet here. Raises to $1000.
Action folds to villain.
He calls.
Pot is now $2075.
Flop is
Villain checks.
So far, this is all pretty standard for an C-bet, and the flop seems well in our favor. We opt for a pretty standard C-bet size, and bet out $900. We want to fold out some of his range, but keep him in the hunt where we have an EV advantage.
Villain thinks for a bit (he acts slowly in general, no matter what the move) and calls.
Turn is
Villain checks.
Pot is now $3875.
This card is not the worst, but it does start to fill out some of V's expected range. AXc now has a flush draw, 8s have filled out, 67s has hit its gutter, etc. That said, we're still ahead most of the time with our Js, and given the lack of a 4-bet, we're discounting Qs, Ks and Aces. We decide to barrel again.
Hero bets $2600.
Villain tanks. We're trying to avoid eye contact by staring at the loose chip stack in the middle of the table, and while the pot itself isn't HUGE, this is J fucking C, and he has the same initials as Jesus, and is one letter advanced from James Bond and Jason Bourne, and we are nervous, ffs.
In fact, he tanks for so long that we eventually look up at him, and we find him staring at us. Steel, pure damn steel.
He then pushes a stack of chips forward, and says "All in."
We ask the dealer to pull in the $2600, and get a count of what's left.
Dealer announces that it's $7475.
We are extremely miffed by this bet. Now, not only do we have to deal with the fact that Johnny effing Chan has us in a pressure cooker, but we have to consider that our read is wrong.
What could he be shoving with? What does he think we have that would make us call? Surely he can tell we have an overpair. Which means he really wants us to call, if he has 8s, 9s, or other hidden hands like 89s.
Or, could he have a combo draw? We’re a bit too nervous to think clearly. But something must be done, everyone is staring.
In the end, we decide a call is best because we’re most likely still ahead. We settle on him having a flush draw or combo draw — like AXc, 9c7c, etc.
We call, and ask how many times he wants to run it.
He says “once”.
River is
He turns over . He missed!
We sunran that night, till 11am the next morning. We felted 5 of the 8 other players, including the villain twice.
In for $2000. Out for $114,000.
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GG!