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The general table seems pretty weak but there is a German slow roller on my immediate left who went deep in the EPT snowfest and a FT pro three to my left.

Unfortunately Steve Sung has joined my table and is sat on my immediate right.  I didn't know who he was at first but he plays the absolute top nosebleeds on Full Tilt and has a string of decent cashes live.  He is sat with big sunglasses and a hoodie on so I am not ever going to get a read.  I know who he is when this hand happens and he is walking all over the table.

He won't have me as a nit, as I probably played back at him more than the rest of the table put together.

I have 80K chips.  He has around the same.

Blinds are 300/600 and I think the ante was 50 though it may have been 25.

It is folded round to him in the cut off and he open limps 600.  I never saw him do this before this point.   This bamboozled me and I almost asked if it was a misclick, though I am sure he wouldn't have even smiled.

I have Q9sooted(not clubs) and call.  SB and BB call.  I assume this is fine.

The flop was JdTd8c

It goes check, check, check and I bet 2000, Steve Sung calls.

The turn is the 7c, he checks, I bet 5500, he calls. So far, so standard.

The river is the 2c, he checks, I bet 7500, he thinks for a bit and places 35K over the line.

I tank and tank, I say "I may as well have a jack here" and the break comes and I tank some more....

 

never ever ever folding here

+1

If you were planning on bet folding here why bet the river after villain checks?

It's a bit puke but I'm not good enough to pass

this for me - plus he could easily just have a 9

+1  what happened?

I snap this pretty quick.

The majority of your 3barrel range is sets, top2, straights etc and you have very few club flush draws in your range. If he's got you considering folding the nut straigt then its obv a great spot to c/r bluff the club river.

He's obv very good so I think he's aware of this which puts a lot more combinations of bluffs in his range than there would otherwise be. He can also be turning made hands into bluffs.

Call, just unlucky if he has clubs.

He has you on far weaker than the made straight, I reckon

You look like you're betting to protect.

Way too many hands that he can have here that he thinks he's value shoving with + of course the bluffs.

There's no way he's putting you on a decent flush.

Call and cry a bit if you lose.

+ you shouldn't really have a decision here. You should be betting to call or betting to fold. You shouldn't be betting to then have to go in to a ten minute tank.

As has already been said if you were planning to fold to a shove you should just check behind.

not sure if it changes your view matt but he's not shoved

If you were planning on bet folding here why bet the river after villain checks?

I wasn't planning to.  I was betting to induce, I just wasn't expecting it to be so big!

Then I got thinking have I turned my hand face up by betting so small... then I started thinking that Ac Kc fits this so well.  And then I worked out how many chips I would have left... And I had already worked out he probably thought a level or two above me....and I'll take as long as I like when it is two thirds of my chips and $10k of equity to call :P

I eventually called and he had Ac Tc.  

He really is very good.  I sat with Patrik Antinous once for most of a day and he didn't walk over the table as much as this kid did.  I wouldn't be surprised if he wins it all.

Anway just checking my line, as this one bothered me for the last couple of days.  FWIW I did hero call for all my chips later vs him and am still in it.

I never did ask if the limp was a misclick, though I may ask him today as he is on the next table.  

And PS what was the probability of me finding myself with two 300k stacks at my table today?  Not sure if this is good or bad.  I originally thought it was bolix, but I guess they may play borderline spew with stacks that big??

UL with the hand hope your table draw today works out better for you

Grrr. 

think of them as your personal atm & gl

???  i was only wishing you had a better table today after you yourself posted that your table was tough!
GL today anyway

Cheers Dewi and Eso, obv a misread of your intentions.

I'll just have to sit and see how they play.  Can't see me doing much bullying today though.

NP hope you run good, do you hav a post elsewhere or will you put a further update at end of day?

guess I'll just post here, as I don't have twitter/internet mobile.  Am getting off. gl me. 

GLGLGLGLGL  keep the posts coming

I went out an hour from the end.  Shoved a short stack with 66 vs KK.  I was well in to double figure shoves at this point and had already won a race and sucked out once by that point, so it did feel inevitable in the end.  I never got above 60k on day 3 and had been right down at 20k a couple of times.

Playing a table full of aggressive big stacks (2 more huges stacks joined during the day) would have been great with hands.  So many times the action got to me with a reraise to 15K, and there is so little you can do in that situation with a 30k stack and 83 off. 

It was quite a relief to go out in the end.  It was certainly the most relieved I have ever felt busting out of a tournament. 

FWIW Ironically after 3 days of pain from missed flops and not a single set, I played a bit of 1/3 cash when I got back, and I hit the deck so many times and ended over $1k up in around 3 hours. 

we never get called by worse is what youre saying? he's only ever check raising or check folding?

Just got in  ul doobs  gl if you stay for a bit