Royal Flush Baby !!!

[krunchie]

Friday Night on a Certain un-named poker site

$3 dollar 267 runner

After nearly 4 hours play i find my self on the Final table in 5th of 9.


Blinds are 3k 6k and I have 75k.

Im on the cut off with [ks js]

2 limpers , i raise to 18k, the blind folds as does the utg limper.

Flop comes [as 10s 3d]

my opponent checks, as do I.

At this exact moment my wife says " wouldnt it be crazy if you nailed a queen of spades"

Turn [qs] OMFG

que much excitement and talk of the best way to play it.

my opponent checks i bet 18k, he calls

river [2s] he checks again i bet 27k and he folds

i take a nice pot and move into 3rd place and now have my first royal flush


Ended up 4th for $78, for which i was happy but not as happy as having scored that hand.

[Garth Kay]

You fired at the pot when you had a royal?

And that's not the only amazing thing, you managed to get a caller?

I think the 2s hurt you on the river, any non spade card and you might have been paid off.

Congrats.

[bennymacca]

sometimes the best way to disguise your hand is to represent it

[maccatak11]

For instance leading out with trips on a paired board looks way less like trips than check-raising or even check-calling.

[AceLosesKing]

Check/check on that board after a preflop raise looks very suss. I like the bet.

[krunchie]

My thinking was that if I bet he would know i didnt have it

I mean how many of us have actually played in a hand with a royal flush, so its not the type of hand you automatically put your opponent on.

Being heads up and on the final table, I was pretty sure i wasnt going to get this player to shove, so i was trying to eek what i could out of his stack, turns out i got 18k more than i expected, as i wasnt expecting him to call, but i was hoping.

[Chelsea4thewin]

of course he got a caller, its a $3 tourney

[Garth Kay]

of course he got a caller, its a $3 tourney

Yeah that was my thinking as well.

In that situation, and depending on my table image and the image of the type of player my opponent is here: Check/Check is not suss, nor do I fire at the turn.

In a $3 tourney, I would fire at the flop (normal c bet) and shut down on the turn when the turn falls the scary flush card (but making my hand) and then see what happens on the river. It must also be noted that I will fire a c bet 99% of the time in a heads up situation.

I shut down on the turn to convey weakness. With a flop of that nature I want to get as many chips into the middle as possible. So I want him to three bet me here or jam to what my opponent believes is my c bet. Checking that flop is not an option for me. That's an action flop and I may be the favourite against 80% of my opponents range but it does not mean I have made my hand nor will I. But these are the hands I am willing to gamble with against a calling range from middle to late pos or out of the blinds.

Either way I jam on the river to make it look like I am either buying the pot or overplaying my marginal holdings as "I do not believe he has the flush or any strength as my opponent has checked/bet weak the whole way". That is the thought I am trying to put into my opponents head by playing this hand that way.

But then again in a $3 tourney I more than likely going to get my jam paid off if he has any part of the board, as long as the river doesn't bring that four flush. Unless he has the 8 or 9 spades.

[AceLosesKing]

of course he got a caller, its a $3 tourney

Yeah that was my thinking as well.

In that situation, and depending on my table image and the image of the type of player my opponent is here: Check/Check is not suss, nor do I fire at the turn.

So what, you fire a value bet on the river? You know nothing is calling you. A spade slowed down a LOT of action, but in the micro tourny's check/check/value bet is usually a slow played monster. No one knows how to extract value at the micro levels, they just check every street. They always call you at micro's, go for fat value.

In a $3 tourney, I would fire at the flop (normal c bet) and shut down on the turn when the turn falls the scary flush card (but making my hand) and then see what happens on the river. It must also be noted that I will fire a c bet 99% of the time in a heads up situation.

Yeah, I'd be firing this flop too. Unless you read your opponent for an Ace that will check/jam on you (even then its still a call I reckon), fire this flop. You have a good draw. Shutting down on the turn is good too, c-bet/check turn looks so weak to them.

[Garth Kay]

of course he got a caller, its a $3 tourney

Yeah that was my thinking as well.

In that situation, and depending on my table image and the image of the type of player my opponent is here: Check/Check is not suss, nor do I fire at the turn.

So what, you fire a value bet on the river? You know nothing is calling you. A spade slowed down a LOT of action, but in the micro tourny's check/check/value bet is usually a slow played monster. No one knows how to extract value at the micro levels, they just check every street. They always call you at micro's, go for fat value.

You jam the river or fire a value bet, one way or the other you have to make it look suss. If anyone is going to check down the river most ag players will at least fire at the river. I like the jam option, in micro stakes I jam the river almost 90% of the time, even when I'm bluffing or holding a monster. The reasoning behind this is quite simple, I will get called a minority of the time and for my nuts/bluff ratio I only need to be called down a few times for this to become the most profitable play. I also like the jam simply because a called value bet gives too much information to the whole table and if I am going to show the table I like to slowplay or play sneaky I want at least one sucker to pay for that information.