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By Adam | Published Nov 30 2006, 03:15 AM
William Jensen (Brett Favre on Stars), known by most of his friends as Huey, has been killing the Stars rebuys over the last couple months, including two October wins in the $100 rebuys and a win in the $50 rebuy.  On Monday the 27th of November, he pulled off an impressive feat in these rebuys, making the final table of both $100 rebuys and the $50 rebuy all in the same day.  A mystery to many who follow online poker, PocketFives.com has caught up with this 24 year-old professional poker player.

Huey plays 5-6 days a week online, making his living entirely from online tournaments.  He's gone through phases in some of the other games that are available, but right now, it's 100% MTT's.  Each day, he enters these rebuy tournaments, and although he went deep in all of them on Monday, he insists that he was not playing any better than he usually does.   He did make one really tough call, though, and it was against one of the most dominant online players of the last few months: Annette_15.

On this particular hand, each player had about $24k in chips with the blinds at 300-600.  She raised two spots from the button, and Huey decided he would call with TJ in the cutoff.  As he put it, "This is not something i would usually do, but I think she respects me, and I had a reasonably tight image, so I figured I might be able to get her away from a hand."

The flop came Q Q 2 with 2 diamonds, and Annette checked.  It was just the two of them in the hand still, and Huey bet 2400, which was about half the pot.  Annette called his bet, and the turn came the 9.  Annette led out for 4,200 this time, and at this point, Huey felt she was kind of weak.  He ended up calling with his straight draw and flush draw.  "I could have raised here," he told me, "but of course there was the chance she was slowplaying a queen.  I didn't think she had a flush, because I think she would have led at a two-diamond flop or check-raised me (if she had diamonds in her hand).  I was probably pushing any river that didn't improve my hand at that point."

The river came the K, giving him the second best possible flush on a paired board, and Annette insta-shoved.  "I have a great deal of respect for Annette's game," Huey said, "and I know she is definitely capable of a stone cold bluff here, especially against me.  When I rationalized it, though, I didn't think she would just open push a full house.  Also, the only full house that really made sense was KQ, because I think she would have led at the flop with 9 9 or K K.  So basically, I just decided that her flop call was all just to set up trying to take the pot away from me on a future street, and that she really didn't have much of a hand."

After using 54 seconds of his time bank, Huey decided to call, and he looked at AJ with no diamond and scooped the pot.  Really, what it came down to was two players both thinking on a very high level, and Huey coming out on top ths time with the correct read of the situation.  It also shows that despite him saying that he was playing the same as he does all other days, he was definitely bringing his A-game to the table on Monday.

Or maybe he's just that good all the time.