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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Hand Of The Day #28

$1/$2 NLHE - Greektown Casino - 03.22.10

UTG limps. I'm the UTG+1 with 75h, and I limp. (Yeah, it's that kind of table.) Many others limp in to the pot. The BB raises to $12. Most of us call. Six or seven players see a Flop of Th 9s 8s. SB checks. BB goes All-In for $36. UTG thinks for a bit, and calls.

While the UTG is thinking, so am I. On the surface, I don't have much right now. Just the dummy end of an Open-Ender on a Flush board, and a backdoor Flush draw. Against six or seven players, my hand is shit. But against one player, it has some equity.

With the preflop raise, there's around $80 in the pot. The BB, who was the preflop raiser, bet $36 (Pot total: $116ish). Since he raised to $12 with just $48 in his stack, he could be pushing in with a rather wide range of hands. He could have an overpair, and just didn't want to see that pointy card. He could have some face cards, and whiffed. It is possible that he's got a Set or Straight. But I think that he's just a Pair, or maybe even AK.

Right after the UTG called (Pot total: $152ish), I decided that the only logical move was to Isolate, since I'm now getting $152/$36 or 4.22/1. I quickly grabbed a full stack of Red, added one White chip on top, and pushed it forward for a $101 bet. No, I have not misread my hand. I am aware that I currently have 7-high.

But this is a scary Flop, and I have a very good table image. I recently raised on the Flop with a Set, and won a sweet pot against two players with Top Pair (AJ). This table has been rather passive (hence all the limping). So I just have to hope that nobody flopped a Monster, and shoves All-In. If they do, then I will probably fold, since I would drawing very, very dead.

But nobody did. Everyone ejected, except the UTG player. He thought for a while, and reluctantly called the extra $65. Crap.

Turn: [Th 9s 8s] 6s. Well, I hit my Straight, but the Flush got there, too. UTG thinks for a bit, and goes All-In for $40. I hate this, but the pot is over $350 now, so it's an auto-call.

River: [Th 9s 8s 6s] Ts. Peachy, the fourth Flush card, and the Board pairs. I show my Straight. UTG shows ATc, and BB shows KTd for Trips. Neither of them have a Spade, and I win a pot near $400.

Did I get lucky in this hand? Well, duh! But I would like to think that I created some of my own luck by reading the situation, and doing the action that gave me the best chance to win the pot.

Or maybe I just Luckboxed this hand. Either way, I'm the one who's stacking the chips.

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