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  1. Hecklerz Hecklerz is offline

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    Aug 11th, 2008 (8/11/2008 1:35pm)

    Without the hand history, I can only give you the basics (site I play at only has animated HH from what I know).

    6-man, $10 SNG, 5 players left

    Anywho, I was the chip leader in the BB with ~2x everybody else's stack. The 3 players immediately after me fold. The SB calls and I check with A 3 o/s (don't recall suits but it doesn't matter for this hand).

    Flop came A-A-A. Holy crap, I just flopped quads. How am I going to proceed with this? My train of thought was this, slowplay the hell out of it until the river and HOPEFULLY villian hits for a full house.

    So, after the flop it was check/check and the turn is a Jack (suit is not imporatant). Again, check/check (didn't want to unnecessarily chase villian out) and the river comes as another Jack. To me, this is the BEST case scenario. Villian at best will have an overpair (unlikely as there was no raise preflop or betting prior to river OR villian will play the board without consideration.

    Villian checks and after using about 1/2 my time, I throw all my chips in the middle trying to make it look like a steal. Villian spends 3/4 of this time thinking about it as I'm waiting for his/her money to go into the middle. To my surprise, and this has bugged me since it happened, villian folds. OMG, who the hell would ever fold to that board especially since I limped into the pot as the big blind?

    Why did this person fold? The only thing I can think of is that they were going to take a very cautious approach to making the money.

    Any ideas?
  2. Juanda 87 Juanda 87 is offline

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    Aug 11th, 2008 (8/11/2008 1:41pm) in reply to Hecklerz

    He obv was playing the board, and why risk his whole stack to split the pot at best when it's a unraised pot and there is nothing to split but the blinds. And your line was pretty transparent imho. "I throw all my chips in the middle trying to make it look like a steal". Who checks down an unraised pot and shoves all in on the river as a steal, be honest now..

    "Why did this person fold?" heh pure gold line kid, I think the same thing everytime I shove on the river with quads and someone mucks, sick world.
  3. H@BB@KUK H@BB@KUK is offline

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    Aug 11th, 2008 (8/11/2008 1:41pm) in reply to Hecklerz

    he folded because

    A. He believed you had it, standard line for quads lmao

    B. Why go broke in an unraised pot? You completed from the sb and checked it down with him and shoved the river. Pretty big gamble to call it off on the river.

    Next time make a small bet on the turn and a bit larger on the river, shoving gets a lot of folds there at the low\micro levels...
  4. Goal4Ziggy Goal4Ziggy is offline

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    Aug 11th, 2008 (8/11/2008 1:42pm) in reply to Hecklerz

    LOL @ taking 1/2 your timebank and then shoving, I can't think of anything that screams "I HAVE QUADS" more...
  5. ComebackShane ComebackShane is offline

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    Aug 11th, 2008 (8/11/2008 1:43pm) in reply to Hecklerz

    What good does calling do for him? Obviously he's playing the board, so his best hope is for a chop. Why would he risk all of his chips to chop a couple of blinds?

    I think your best bet here would have been to 1/2 bet the pot, because he's not going to put you on an A, obviously, and he'll either call to look you up, or if he truly has nothing, he might fold.

    But that's how it goes; you're not entitled to a big pot just because you have a big hand. You've got to get lucky and have them have one too.
  6. lockdownpokah lockdownpokah is offline

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    Aug 11th, 2008 (8/11/2008 1:57pm) in reply to ComebackShane

    learn to think plz
     
  7. Hecklerz Hecklerz is offline

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    Aug 11th, 2008 (8/11/2008 2:53pm) in reply to Hecklerz

    Thanks all for clueing me in. Not the most forgiving of responses but I get the picture.

    "Not worth betting 100% of his stack to chop a couple of blinds"

    Putting it this way, yeah, I agree with you 100%.

    ~Heck~
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