We are heads up.
Villian is Martin Bader. He has a long hendon mob, without any five figure results. I think he is a reg at the vic and knows a few people.
Since Marc Wright has gone in fifth, I have been raising more hands than not.
He has seen me 3 bet with A6 off 4 handed. It was called by 68 suited and we got it in on a 345 flop.
He has seen me raise the SB, call a 1.5m shove pre with A2 off (held against Q9s)
At the start of the heads up, I was raising every button, and Martin was probably folding more than he was calling. We had oen big pot where I raised 60 to 150K, where he shoved 1.3m with 66. I called with A7 off and he held. After that I had a chip lead that was roughly 2:1, so we did a deal where I took 62k and he took 56K (previous deals meant we were both gteed 50K and were playig for 18k, the seat and the trophy). We are now just playing for a 2k grand final seat and the trophy.
Since then he has started calling or shoving every button raise and calling or shoving most of my 3 bets too. He has called my raises twice with J4 off and hit the 4 twice. I think he has been all in at least half a dozen times, and each time I have had something terrible and folded.
At the start of the hand I think he has somewhere between 2.5 and 3m (this is wrong, but will come to that).
He raises from the button to 180K (blinds 30K to 60K). I look down and see
, and given his current game, make it 500K. He said to the dealer something like, "I can't fold this hand and you'll see why" and calls. The flop is
.
I bet out 600K, he shoves after a pause. When I bet out, I was always calling a shove. When I get a count, it is 2.2m to call (It surprised me how much, but there are lots of stacks of 5k and 10ks and I hadn't made the effort to count them all recently). There is 4.4m total in the pot already and I am getting 2/1 the call.
I assumed that he would have been all in pre with most of his pairs and big hands given several recent all ins. I sat there and decided his range was a few stray small pairs, an odd 3 or 10 and a fair few hands he got stubborn with. I assumed he was the type to just call the bet with a 10.
I was fairly aware this call might look terrible to a casual observer and called.
He turns over
and I am drawing very thin, until he hits the house on the turn.
I think the call of the all in must be OK, but was described as a crying call on the GUKPT blog. I guess I am around 45% to 50% vs his two heart range (I haven't checked), 25% vs his 2 pair hands and a big favourite vs his spew. I am obviously crushed if he has a ten.
I assume the 600k bet is fine, as he folds much of the time. As he is in the mood to be stubborn, there is a good chance he calls with hands I dominate, such as big aces, two paint and sometimes just floats as it is hard for me to hit that board.
Is this all just standard or is it spew?
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