Value-bet of the decade

[stooks99]

Poker Stars $10 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t100/t200 Blinds + t25 - 9 players
Hand Conversion courtesy of Tournament Poker Edge

UTG+1: BB = 5.8, t1165
UTG+2: BB = 21.1, t4210
MP1: BB = 88.9, t17780
MP2: BB = 84.3, t16860
CO: BB = 17.2, t3440
BTN: BB = 19.3, t3865
SB: BB = 15.0, t3000
BB: BB = 16.6, t3330
abueloava (UTG): BB = 118.3, t23655

Pre Flop: (t525) abueloava is UTG with 6:diamond: 6:heart:
abueloava raises to t425, UTG+1 calls t425, 1 fold, MP1 calls t425, 4 folds, BB calls t225

Flop: (t2025) A:heart: 2:spade: 6:spade: (4 players)
BB checks, abueloava bets t1050, UTG+1 folds, MP1 calls t1050, BB folds

Turn: (t4125) 7:heart: (2 players)
abueloava bets t2275, MP1 calls t2275

River: (t8675) A:club: (2 players)
abueloava checks, MP1 bets t14005 all in, abueloava calls t14005

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[spoil]Final Pot: t36685
MP1 shows Ad As (four of a kind, Aces)
abueloava shows 6d 6h (a full house, Sixes full of Aces)
MP1 wins t36685
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[William]

That's a cooler...

I would've gotten it all-in there myself.

[holdemholmes]

Yea...pretty crazy but the hand kind of played itself....cant expect A6 or A7 there, I'm pretty sure i'd think I was good....especially since he just ships it.

[TJCOgators]

Yea...pretty crazy but the hand kind of played itself....cant expect A6 or A7 there, I'm pretty sure i'd think I was good....especially since he just ships it.

Agreed.  The pre-flop play and River shove by the villian are horrible IMO.

With that said I'm assuming you were looking for the check-raise on the River???

[stooks99]

Yea...pretty crazy but the hand kind of played itself....cant expect A6 or A7 there, I'm pretty sure i'd think I was good....especially since he just ships it.

Agreed.  The pre-flop play and River shove by the villian are horrible IMO.

With that said I'm assuming you were looking for the check-raise on the River???

I debated, but I felt it was more likely that the villan had a busted flush draw than an ace.  Results-wise, it wouldn't have made a difference, but I think most of the time I'm putting in a value-bet on the river.   I really felt like I wasn't getting called here. 

When he shoved, I took random Aces out of his range, as I felt a move like that really polarized his range of hands to very very strong or very very weak.  If he is very strong, the money goes in, if he has a missed draw, he might bluff at it.

[Martini]

Yea...pretty crazy but the hand kind of played itself....cant expect A6 or A7 there, I'm pretty sure i'd think I was good....especially since he just ships it.

How exactly do you rule out A6 or A7 from a guy flat calling a barely larger than min-raise? In fact I'd much sooner expect to see A7 or A6 (or A2 for that matter) in that spot than AA.

[stooks99]

Yea...pretty crazy but the hand kind of played itself....cant expect A6 or A7 there, I'm pretty sure i'd think I was good....especially since he just ships it.

How exactly do you rule out A6 or A7 from a guy flat calling a barely larger than min-raise? In fact I'd much sooner expect to see A7 or A6 (or A2 for that matter) in that spot than AA.

That may be true, but I think you see 88-JJ much more often that just a random bad ace...and random spades even more often than that.

[holdemholmes]

Yea...pretty crazy but the hand kind of played itself....cant expect A6 or A7 there, I'm pretty sure i'd think I was good....especially since he just ships it.

How exactly do you rule out A6 or A7 from a guy flat calling a barely larger than min-raise? In fact I'd much sooner expect to see A7 or A6 (or A2 for that matter) in that spot than AA.

I guess I'm giving this guy more credit than is due....

[TJCOgators]

Yea...pretty crazy but the hand kind of played itself....cant expect A6 or A7 there, I'm pretty sure i'd think I was good....especially since he just ships it.

How exactly do you rule out A6 or A7 from a guy flat calling a barely larger than min-raise? In fact I'd much sooner expect to see A7 or A6 (or A2 for that matter) in that spot than AA.

I guess I'm giving this guy more credit than is due....

I would not expect any weak A in that situation.  77 makes more sense of a holding in that spot than any weak A or AA for that matter. 

[FSL009]

clearly range merge with the call at the front, would be very difficult to put him on AA gven he flat called.

I think with the Fh you've just got to stack of and let it steam you up...

damn shame.  but its like a small % of his hands that he could have that beat you on the end so you have to call pertty much any bet i think.

so sucks