Here’s a series of hands I played with a pretty big fish in a recent 3/6 NL game on UB. By the end, we were both 500 BB’s deep, and I ran a huge bluff on him that culminated in a 250 BB river shove with 9-high. Enjoy!
It Begins
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Seat 0: stacktoplease ($600) – 
Seat 1: todopami ($800.50) – 
Seat 2: Dodgebullet12 ($2323.80)
Seat 3: TheWhippet ($3118.60)
Seat 4: Foucault ($621.10)
Seat 5: WhiteLotus80 ($867.60) – 
PRE-FLOP:
stacktoplease posts small blind $3
todopami posts BIG blind $6
Dealt To: Foucault
CALL Dodgebullet12 ($6)
CALL TheWhippet ($6)
RAISE Foucault ($33)
FOLD WhiteLotus80
FOLD stacktoplease
FOLD todopami
FOLD Dodgebullet12
CALL TheWhippet ($33)
FLOP:
Pot: $87
CHECK TheWhippet
BET Foucault ($54)
CALL TheWhippet ($54)
TURN:
Pot: $195 
CHECK TheWhippet
BET Foucault ($135)
RAISE TheWhippet ($594)
CALL Foucault ($534.10)
UNCALLED TheWhippet ($59.90)
RIVER:
Pot: $1398.2 
SHOWDOWN:
TheWhippet:
Foucault:
Foucault collected $1253.7 from main pot with three fives
Image Established
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Seat 0: GuiGui_88 ($635.50)
Seat 1: Cash7777Money ($185.50)
Seat 2: Dodgebullet12 ($1906.65) –
Seat 3: TheWhippet ($2741.20) –
Seat 4: Foucault ($2531.15) –
Seat 5: todopami ($1259)
PRE-FLOP:
TheWhippet posts small blind $3
Foucault posts BIG blind $6
Dealt To: Foucault
FLOP:
Pot: $9 
TURN:
Pot: $9
RIVER:
Pot: $9 
TheWhippet collected $320.5 from main pot with ace high
For some reason his cards aren’t showing up here, but he called me down with AQ.
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Seat 0: GuiGui_88 ($1251.20)
Seat 1: RedRaider23 ($1290.65) –
Seat 2: Dodgebullet12 ($1698.85) –
Seat 3: TheWhippet ($2989.05) –
Seat 4: Foucault ($3726.30)
Seat 5: todopami ($600)
PRE-FLOP:
Dodgebullet12 posts small blind $3
TheWhippet posts BIG blind $6
Dealt To: Foucault
RAISE Foucault ($21)
FOLD todopami
FOLD GuiGui_88
FOLD RedRaider23
FOLD Dodgebullet12
CALL TheWhippet ($21)
FLOP:
Pot: $51
CHECK TheWhippet
BET Foucault ($45)
CALL TheWhippet ($45)
TURN:
Pot: $141
CHECK TheWhippet
BET Foucault ($135)
CALL TheWhippet ($135)
RIVER:
Pot: $411
CHECK TheWhippet
CHECK Foucault
SHOWDOWN:
TheWhippet:
MUCK Foucault
TheWhippet collected $401.5 from main pot with a pair of queens
Perhaps I Got Bluffed?
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Seat 0: GuiGui_88 ($594) –
Seat 1: Cash7777Money ($241.75) –
Seat 2: Dodgebullet12 ($2480.65)
Seat 3: TheWhippet ($2506.50)
Seat 4: Foucault ($2377.65)
Seat 5: todopami ($1229) –
PRE-FLOP:
GuiGui_88 posts small blind $3
Cash7777Money posts BIG blind $6
Dealt To: Foucault
FOLD Dodgebullet12
RAISE TheWhippet ($21)
RAISE Foucault ($72)
FOLD todopami
FOLD GuiGui_88
FOLD Cash7777Money
CALL TheWhippet ($72)
FLOP:
Pot: $174 
CHECK TheWhippet
CHECK Foucault
TURN:
Pot: $174 
BET TheWhippet ($153)
CALL Foucault ($153)
RIVER:
Pot: $480 
BET TheWhippet ($459)
FOLD Foucault
UNCALLED TheWhippet ($459)
TheWhippet collected $455.5 from main pot
Semi-Bluff and Value Bet
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Seat 0: GuiGui_88 ($734.50)
Seat 1: RedRaider23 ($582)
Seat 2: Dodgebullet12 ($2404.70) –
Seat 3: TheWhippet ($2574.05) –
Seat 4: Foucault ($3403.05) –
Seat 5: todopami ($1081.50)
PRE-FLOP:
TheWhippet posts small blind $3
Foucault posts BIG blind $6
Dealt To: Foucault
FOLD todopami
FOLD GuiGui_88
FOLD RedRaider23
FOLD Dodgebullet12
RAISE TheWhippet ($18)
CALL Foucault ($18)
FLOP:
Pot: $42
BET TheWhippet ($36)
RAISE Foucault ($144)
CALL TheWhippet ($144)
TURN:
Pot: $366 
CHECK TheWhippet
BET Foucault ($324)
CALL TheWhippet ($324)
RIVER:
Pot: $1014 
CHECK TheWhippet
CHECK Foucault
SHOWDOWN:
TheWhippet:
MUCK Foucault
TheWhippet collected $968.5 from main pot with a pair of tens
Keeping Up the Pressure
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Seat 0: GuiGui_88 ($743.50)
Seat 1: RedRaider23 ($605.45)
Seat 2: Dodgebullet12 ($2374.70) –
Seat 3: TheWhippet ($3356.55) –
Seat 4: Foucault ($2680.05) –
Seat 5: todopami ($1006.50) Sitting Out
PRE-FLOP:
TheWhippet posts small blind $3
Foucault posts BIG blind $6
Dealt To: Foucault
RAISE GuiGui_88 ($21)
CALL RedRaider23 ($21)
FOLD Dodgebullet12
CALL TheWhippet ($21)
RAISE Foucault ($105)
FOLD GuiGui_88
CALL RedRaider23 ($105)
CALL TheWhippet ($105)
FLOP:
Pot: $381
CHECK TheWhippet
BET Foucault ($225)
FOLD RedRaider23
CALL TheWhippet ($225)
TURN:
Pot: $831 
CHECK TheWhippet
BET Foucault ($786)
FOLD TheWhippet
UNCALLED Foucault ($786)
Foucault collected $783.5 from main pot
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Seat 0: GuiGui_88 ($1084.80)
Seat 1: RedRaider23 ($1284.85)
Seat 2: Dodgebullet12 ($2375.15)
Seat 3: TheWhippet ($2904.50) –
Seat 4: Foucault ($3244.55) –
Seat 5: todopami ($579.25) –
PRE-FLOP:
Foucault posts small blind $3
todopami posts BIG blind $6
Dealt To: Foucault 
FOLD GuiGui_88
CALL RedRaider23 ($6)
FOLD Dodgebullet12
RAISE TheWhippet ($27)
CALL Foucault ($27)
FOLD todopami
FOLD RedRaider23
FLOP:
Pot: $69 
CHECK Foucault
BET TheWhippet ($66)
RAISE Foucault ($264)
CALL TheWhippet ($264)
TURN:
Pot: $663
BET Foucault ($594)
FOLD TheWhippet
UNCALLED Foucault ($594)
Foucault collected $590.5 from main pot
Questionable Turn Check
Obviously I have a huge hand with top two on the turn, but truthfully, as deep as we are, I am not comfortable getting check-raised and the A is going to scare away a lot of his weaker stuff that may call me down light or improve to a worse two pair on the river. Against a good opponent whom I wanted to double barrel as often as I was this guy, I couldn’t get away with checking AT here because my turn range would be way too polarized when I did bet. I’m not sure it was correct here, either, just giving you my thought process.
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Seat 0: GuiGui_88 ($1077.70) –
Seat 1: RedRaider23 ($1285.15) –
Seat 2: Dodgebullet12 ($1870.95) –
Seat 3: TheWhippet ($3160.30)
Seat 4: Foucault ($3535.05)
Seat 5: todopami ($582)
PRE-FLOP:
RedRaider23 posts small blind $3
Dodgebullet12 posts BIG blind $6
Dealt To: Foucault
RAISE TheWhippet ($21)
RAISE Foucault ($72)
FOLD todopami
FOLD GuiGui_88
FOLD RedRaider23
FOLD Dodgebullet12
CALL TheWhippet ($72)
FLOP:
Pot: $174
CHECK TheWhippet
BET Foucault ($153)
CALL TheWhippet ($153)
TURN:
Pot: $480 
CHECK TheWhippet
CHECK Foucault
RIVER:
Pot: $480
CHECK TheWhippet
BET Foucault ($459)
FOLD TheWhippet
UNCALLED Foucault ($459)
Foucault collected $455.5 from main pot
The Monster Bluff
This is the problem with limp-reraising, especially when you’re this deep. He so often has either top set or an underpair on this flop. With my flush draw, I’m ok with him having either. By the turn, I’m pretty sure it’s the underpair he’s got. I don’t think he’d 3-bet shove AAA here if he had it, so unless he had a strangely played AK, I figured he was either going to call or fold to the raise. If a 3-bet was a big risk, I wouldn’t be able to raise and risk getting blown off my draw. I don’t think he’s checking AAA on the river, so it’s just a question of whether he’s willing make a heroic call with KK. He knows how weak he looks, and even for 100 BB I might not attempt this bluff. I almost checked it back, but then I said to myself, “Come on now, there is no way this asshole is calling all in here no matter how much he thinks you’re bluffing,” so I pulled the trigger.
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Seat 0: GuiGui_88 ($674) –
Seat 1: pphater ($585) Sitting Out
Seat 2: Dodgebullet12 ($2394.70)
Seat 3: TheWhippet ($3487.25)
Seat 4: Foucault ($2499.55) –
Seat 5: todopami ($1149.40) –
PRE-FLOP:
todopami posts small blind $3
GuiGui_88 posts BIG blind $6
Dealt To: Foucault 
FOLD Dodgebullet12
CALL TheWhippet ($6)
RAISE Foucault ($27)
FOLD todopami
FOLD GuiGui_88
RAISE TheWhippet ($126)
CALL Foucault ($126)
FLOP:
Pot: $288
BET TheWhippet ($261)
CALL Foucault ($261)
TURN:
Pot: $810
BET TheWhippet ($124.50)
RAISE Foucault ($612)
CALL TheWhippet ($612)
RIVER:
Pot: $2158.5
CHECK TheWhippet
RAISE Foucault ($1500.55)
FOLD TheWhippet
UNCALLED Foucault ($1500.55)
Foucault collected $2004.5 from main pot
Presto hand is my favorite. Last hand is second favorite.