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I was playing this total fish on a secret site which shall remain nameless at 5/10HU NL and dropped 5k to him (I was only down 1k on the day though). I had never really managed to run up the account in question, so that left me with only $4400 left on the site. Obviously it was time to take a shot at 25/50 NL with the full bankroll. I can’t find a hand history converter for this site, so bear with me on these cliff’s notes.
I doubled up for $4565 when I raised a UTG raiser’s cbet from 300 to 900 with 88 on a 458 rainbow board. He called and the turn came a Q, putting up a flush draw. He checked, I jammed for $3515 into a $2100 pot. The villain and I had history on the site at lower stakes and he thinks I’m insanely bluffy, and probably realized I was taking a shot higher than my normal stakes and expected me to try my hardest to win the pot once it got big. So I decided a shove would make it look like I’m bluffing to win the pot and villain called me with JJ. Not saying that the jam got the call. Even though villain in the hand is a total nit, he probably doubles me up either way given our past history.
A couple orbits later I raised a utg c-bet from 200 to 675 with 8sJs on a 4c 6c 7d board. The pfr called and the turn came a 9. He checked and I decided that between having a lot of outs if called and the chance I could set up a 2-barrel bluff of some marginal pair+draw dictated a bet, so I bet $1350. He called and the river came another 9. This is actually a bad card for me because I can’t represent 67 anymore so if I jam I have to convince my opponet either that I flopped a monster (set/straight) or that I had 89 and decided to bet the turn with it instead of trying to get to showdown. But villain was obviously not that good as evidenced by his constant 1/2-pot continuation bet-sizing, so I decided to push all in for $3550 when the pfr checked, and luckily I took it down.
I then decided that since this is all the money I have on the site and it’s hard to replenish my account, that I should play a tighter and lower variance style. So obviously the next orbit I raised Kd8d UTG and got called by UTG+1. He had $6640 and I covered. The flop came down Q25 with two of my suit. I bet $360 and he called. The turn came an offsuit 6 and I decided to try getting my opponent off a mid pocket-pair or possibly off top pair. I bet $950 and he called. The river came a 9 and I jammed for $5155 into a 3k pot. I did this for a couple reasons. First of all, if he had a monster he’d have raised me on this drawy board more often than not. Second of all, I’m unknown to him and overbets are normally interpreted as nut hands. Finally, there was $3000 in the pot and I had king high, so checking can’t win me the pot.
Then came on of the sickest suckouts I’ve laid on anybody in a long time. UTG minraised to 100, the nit on my right called, and I reraised to $450 with AQo. UTG folded and the nit called. The flop came down A67 with a flush draw. A friend of mine was watching and said “SICK, YOU HIT BRO!” (Yeah, I hang out with some noobs sometimes) and I told him “Whatever, this guy’s so nitty it doesn’t matter, I can’t get paid off here.” So I bet 800 and my friend asked me what I’d do if I got check/raised. I said “It’s such an easy fold: if he check/raises here he’s got a set.” The nit then check/raised to $1900 and I was about to immediately fold when I had a total brain-freeze. I guess I can blame it on having just traveled all the way from Europe on basically no sleep, or maybe I just didn’t want to fold (it’s so hard to do sometimes), but for some reason I went against my read. I was very sure my opponent had a set, but I somehow talked myself into thinking “Flush draws, flush draws” and jammed. He called with 77, the turn came a 6, the river came an ace, and I was collecting a 10k pot I had no right to.
So I ended up chasing a loss when I was only down 1k on the day and making $15k at 25/50. Not bad.
