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
, he checks, I bet 5500, he calls. So far, so standard.
The river is the
, 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....
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