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It's against a maniac who is the chip leader we are 2nd in chips. Feel free to be as honest  as you want!

Its like 1.1k+bounties for 1st, 6th gets £300. Maniac is pretty much playing any2 and a lot of hands.

FT -6 handed on Sky, oh btw there is a player with 40k chips.

Blinds 4k/8k, we min raise UTG with Ace 10 o/s from a 270k stack.

Villian calls UTG+1, every1 else folds. Pot 44k.

Flop:  Ahrt Kh 8d

We Check, they bet pot 44k, we jam they call.

It's a very unusual line to take with this particular hand on this board texture, but am confident I am crushing their range.

I took this line purely based on the villain.

They won the hand with a 7 high flush draw (73) on the river. In a way i'm v happy with how I played the hand, but it was perhaps was to high variance, eg they are never folding any flush draw and could have found a better spot.

   

Yeah, unlucky! Villain gonna Villain

What's the question exactly? Seems a little more like a diary post than a PHA, looks like you've explained why you did what you did and why you didn't do something more "standard".

Can't imagine it's ever a good idea to take a line like this vs the player who can bust you. Especially with a super shortstack at the table.

I daresay there's an ICM wizard that would tell you precisely how expensive it should be.

Would you have posted this hand if you won the pot? Sure it's annoying to bust here whilst 2nd in chips if you were variance conscious then you can just chk/call flop. See a safe turn and check jam, result might be the same but you feel less shitty about it lol! Or if turn goes chk/chk you won't go busto on a heart river.

My only advice is, don't be so critical of yourself in a results oriented manner.

I'd fold pre. I think exact stack sizes and player tendencies are pretty important discussing hands like this. Given how we played it, I'd check call flop and c/c,c/s blank turns.

Hey everyone,

tyvm for the responses.

@David a bit of ICM suicide (!) it was indeed very costly.

Not a line that I'd normally ever take, just so unique versus this particular villain. I also in a way expected they'd be folding here a whole heep too.

Looking back though, I shouldn't be risking my stack versus this player at that time.

Seems completely fine. If he has 73 then he has every axs pre as well as a bunch of off suit ax and a sprinkle of random kx too. Think he seems very unlike the kind of guy to b/f a7 here.

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