PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em, $10 BB (2 handed) Hand History converter Courtesy of PokerZion.com
Hero ($1000)
BB ($3855.15)
Preflop: Hero is Button with 8s, Ts.
Hero raises to $30, BB calls $20.
Flop: ($60) 8c, 5d, Qd (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $44.6, BB calls $44.60.
Turn: ($149.20) 8h (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $96.5, BB raises to $230, Hero calls $133.50.
River: ($609.20) Ah (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $221.5, BB calls $221.50.
Final Pot: $1052.20
Results in white below:
BB has Kd 9d (one pair, eights).
Hero has 8s Ts (three of a kind, eights).
Outcome: Hero wins $1052.20.
I put Villain on a draw but flatted the turn expecting that he would bluff missed rivers. Clearly I was wrong about that part, but I’m pretty happy that I got him to “snap me off” with K-high.
His river checking range consists of draws/bluffs that are giving up and huge hands that are never folding no matter how much I bet. Most of the latter actually beat my hand, though they are very much in the minority.
I think my range also looks pretty drawy. The thing is, given how polarized Villain is, it doesn’t make sense for me to shove if I am trying to bluff (well, unless I think he’s going to hero call with K-high, but I don’t think he’d think I’d think that). So, the underbet is the most credible way to rep a bluff. He can either try to check-raise bluff me or look me up light.
Honestly, although he lost, I think his call is pretty good. I quit him not long after.