A fairly ballsy Call

[twosevoff]

Was pretty sure his all-in bet on the river was a bluff rather than flush, aces-up, or set. Luckily I was right. Is it just me, or is there no feeling more satisfying in NL than making those huge call-downs and snapping off a bluff?

***** Hand History for Game 1041136739 *****
$100 NL Hold'em - Saturday, October 09, 21:04:11 EDT 2004
Table Table 14153 (6 max) (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: budgetinks75 ( $117.1 )
Seat 3: GunnarG ( $56.8 )
Seat 5: NotTooGood27 ( $131 )
Seat 6: teddykgb0304 ( $79 )
Seat 8: RedBull2K4 ( $69.8 )
Seat 10: tvd25dpu ( $214.8 )
budgetinks75 posts small blind [$1].
GunnarG posts big blind [$2].
NotTooGood27 posts big blind + dead [$3].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to NotTooGood27 [ 8h Jd ]
>You have options at Table 14853 (6 max) Table!.
NotTooGood27 raises [$4].
teddykgb0304 folds.
RedBull2K4 folds.
tvd25dpu folds.
budgetinks75 calls [$5].
GunnarG folds.
>You have options at Table 14204 (6 max) Table!.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8s, Ad, 6s ]
budgetinks75 checks.
>You have options at Table 14853 (6 max) Table!.
NotTooGood27 bets [$10].
budgetinks75 calls [$10].
** Dealing Turn ** [ Js ]
budgetinks75 checks.
NotTooGood27 checks.
** Dealing River ** [ 2h ]
>You have options at Table 14853 (6 max) Table!.
budgetinks75 is all-In.
NotTooGood27 calls [$101.1].
budgetinks75 shows [ 9s, 9d ] a pair of nines.
NotTooGood27 shows [ 8h, Jd ] two pairs, jacks and eights.
NotTooGood27 wins $235.20 from the main pot with two pairs, jacks and eights.

[Gatorcon]

Pretty gutsy move to bet PF with that hand and then that's a pretty healty raise for middle pair and a not so great kicker on the flop. You were betting from behind untill you got ahead, then you stopped betting. That's a dangerous way to play NL. It's hard to put him on a hand, but I would have guessed him for a Ax ?[/quote]

[twosevoff]

Yeah, playing 6-max I will raise PF with a lot of very marginal hands, and if it's checked to me or I'm first to act, I'm going to make a good-sized bet on the flop almost every time. This accomplishes a variety of things: I am going to pick up a lot of pots with hands I should have folded, occasionally I'll hit a real gutterball monster and take down a big pot from an unsuspecting opponent, people who haven't played with me before will peg me as a fish once they see some of the junk I'm raising PF, and people I've played with a lot will have to be wary of me because they know I'm unpredictable

In this particular hand, I checked behind him on the turn because the flush draw came, so if he has a hand that beats me, I was probably going to pay him off on the river, but just checking meant that 1. I wasn't going to have to face a very tough decision and shut myself out of the pot if he came over the top (and if he did I probably would have folded) 2. I'd lose less if he did have a hand that beat me or if the fourth spade came on the river 3. I was setting him up to bluff the river (which he did).