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So earlier today, I sat down at a 5/10 HU table vs this guy, jcada99. He declined to play me, and I moved on to the next table. A few hours later, I’m sitting on a UB HU table when jcada99 sits in vs me. Now, I think about mentioning to him that he wouldn’t play me on my FTP account, DaEvils, but I don’t think there’s any obligation there so we started playing. 4 hands in, I totally own him with this hand:
MikeVickIsGod: 4c Jc
jcada99: — –
Pre-flop:
MikeVickIsGod raises to $30. jcada99 calls.
Flop (board: 9c 2c 9s):
jcada99 checks. MikeVickIsGod bets $60. jcada99
calls.
Turn (board: 9c 2c 9s 2s):
jcada99 checks. MikeVickIsGod checks.
River (board: 9c 2c 9s 2s 4s):
jcada99 checks. MikeVickIsGod bets $180. jcada99
goes all-in for $910. MikeVickIsGod calls.
jcada99 shows Tc Ah.
jcada99 has Ah 9c 2c 9s 2s: two pair, nines and
I figured my hand looks not at all like a boat and a lot like ace high, so when I bet I was intending on calling a check/raise and insta-called him. I was expecting him to show up with a busted flush draw or ace high way more often than a boat. That hand was obviously good for my table image. He 4bet me one time and I bluff-5bet jammed all in and he folded. He was winning no pots when this hand came up:
MikeVickIsGod: 8d 7c
jcada99: — –
Pre-flop:
MikeVickIsGod raises to $30. jcada99 re-raises to
$100. MikeVickIsGod calls.
Flop (board: 2d 6c 8s):
jcada99 bets $155. MikeVickIsGod calls.
Turn (board: 2d 6c 8s Kh):
jcada99 bets $425. MikeVickIsGod calls.
River (board: 2d 6c 8s Kh Jc):
jcada99 checks. MikeVickIsGod checks.
Showdown:
jcada99 shows 3h 3c.
Here I thought he was getting frustrated and the king on the turn was a great card for me because it pretty much ensures that a player like him (TAGgy, very aggressive, not particularly thinking) is going to fire 100% of his bluff range and probably won’t fire many marginal hands better than mine that (I’d be impressed if he bet 99 here), so the K pretty much gives me the nuts as pretty much nobody ever makes top pair heads-up.
So then I 5bet for 120 BBs with 99 (I thought he was getting frustrated and 99 is like, the 6th best starting hand) and cracked his AA. Other than that, I’d say any impartial observer, and even some people who are friendly with or related to jcada99 but value honesty and constructive criticism, would agree that I was crushing him and outplaying him. I basically didn’t lose any pots while not even paying much attention (had 3 other HU matches going at the same time). Luckily, I saw in chat (I normally don’t notice chat) that he was complaining to a railbird about the bad beat I laid on him. So I tell him “Yeah, why don’t you tell him about my owning you every other hand? 4J, 78, etc” He just says “Let’s play higher” and I tell him to play me on FTP, where I have more money. He asks me who I am there and I say “DaEvils, but wait you won’t play me now, will you?”
About 2 minutes later, this hand comes up:
MikeVickIsGod: As 8s
jcada99: — –
Pre-flop:
jcada99 raises to $30. MikeVickIsGod re-raises to
$100. jcada99 calls.
Flop (board: 5h Ac Jd):
MikeVickIsGod checks. jcada99 checks.
Turn (board: 5h Ac Jd 5s):
MikeVickIsGod checks. jcada99 bets $155.
MikeVickIsGod calls.
River (board: 5h Ac Jd 5s Td):
MikeVickIsGod checks. jcada99 bets $400.
MikeVickIsGod calls.
Showdown:
jcada99 shows 3s 3d.
He immediately picks up after the hand and I’m laughing about how this guy was talking trash but is now quitting me. About 5 minutes later, he sits in at my 25/50 table on FTP. I’m salivating, thinking that a) I own this guy, b) he’s probably playing way out of his comfort zone since he plays 5/10 (meanwhile I’m on a 90k heater so I could care less about losing at 25/50), and c) I own this guy.
I 5bet bluffed him all in again and it worked, every reraise was taking it down, and other than folding to two check/raises of his I pretty much had control of the match. I chipped away at him without it getting to showdown and the last hand of the match I reraised AA, I bet a K-high two-heart flop, and he raised me. I instantly jammed all in because my hotel internet is spotty and I didn’t want to risk getting disconnected. FTP lagged for me, so the next thing I saw was that the turn and river had been dealt and I faded his Q-high flush draw. He was no longer sitting at my table. 49 hands, +8572 at 25/50. 294 hands, +3236 at 5/10. Not very often you get a grudge match started at 5 times the previous stakes being played, so winning and ruining this guy’s day after he was talking trash was very rewarding.
Also, if you know jcada please direct him to this blog. Hopefully he’ll get all pissed off and challenge me to a rematch.
