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I stacked my poker coach/mentor tonight on Ignition
My poker coach runs a poker chat group on skype. I take part in it everyday.
He does have a kind of controlling personality when it comes to poker, it's his way or the highway. He views me as probably the worst player in the group because I don't actively do my homework as often as his other students in the group, but he's basically the professor, and encourages me to take part in more homework in the groups.
So here's my history of playing with him on bovada. I first met him in October of 2014, back when I wanted to move up in stakes really fast, I was taking shots at 100nl even though my skill level was nowhere near what it took to beat 100nl, and he was still playing 100nl, but still managing to move up. He had demonstrated on his twitch stream that his skill level far exceeds that of the average 100nl player, and can win that stake level with ease.
Well we get the bright idea to play on the same table, and he runs one of his epic bluffs against me while I hold top two pair. Me having absolutely no hand reading skills at the time, I'm like "WTF do you have that you're shoving on?" into the mic and he remains silent. I said into the mic "IF I help put your kids through college, so be it..." I begrudgingly call (Kings and Queens was my holding, dry board IIRC), and I win his stack. It was kind of funny I over heard him on the mic go "ohhhh!" when I hit the call button because he had trash. Then he later told me that even though I won, I played the hand really bad.
We decided we don't like playing each other at the same table since we're probably throwing each other off, and his livelihood and family depends on him playing top notch poker.
So then a few months ago after a year and a half hiatus from saying we'll never play at the same tables we pull up a 50nl on bovada, 6-max as he's temporarily moved down to a stake level I'm comfortable with playing. He's running bluffs, he's running everyone at the table over, I'm to his immediate right so he has position on me, and he's developing quite a stack while I play a somewhat rockish 20/17. He's table captain. I get delt AKo, I bet, he calls, and flop comes AA10. I lead flop, he calls, I lead turn he calls and he says into the mic "What, do you have an ace?" I remain stone cold silent. River looks like a brick, I check river, and he makes this huge bet designed to look like a value bet. I call, he shows a whiffed gutshot/flush draw, and he gets really mad at me, tells me I play "like a jackass" and that I should have bet river (hence giving him a prime opportunity to fold a hand he wanted to turn into a bluff if you asked me), it's kind of funny because he's a far better more dedicated poker player than me, and this time again, I Just happen to pick off a huge bluff from him. THen he immediately leaves the table because "a nit is on my right" I.E. me lol.
Fast forward to tonight. We're in the poker chat group, and there's this youngish/middle aged Asian woman, playing poker on twitch, and she plays terrible. I commented that her plays were so bad, it was like if you sat a Chimpanzee down and had it play poker on your behalf. Bear in mind, supposedly she had lost $1,000 online in a matter of two days. Just as a small example of her bad play, she OL J2s from UTG and I commented in the chat "For the rest of your poker career at a full ring 9 player table, never OL J2s from UTG again" and she agreed.
So then I decide in front of the student group who's watching her stream and she doesn't know this but we all think she's one of the worst poker players we've ever seen, to sit down at her table one spot to the left of her, because I recognized she's a really shitty player, and it would make things more interesting for the student group. My poker coach/friend he didn't like that I was going to pick on her and secretly, sits down at the same table as me, one spot to my left. And what I didn't know is anytime I raised, he was going to 3bet me in position, because I hate it when I have a wide 3bettor with position on me. I got about 200bb, he's got 150bb.
He's 3bet 3x at this point and he is so far proving to be the most prolific 3bettor at the table, particularly whenever I enter the pot.
5 handed full ring game
Hero is dealt 66 in the CO 202bb stack
Villain is on BTN 152.5bb stack
VPIP 42
PFR 22
AGG 22.0
3BET 30.0
MP1 (Girl running a twitch stream at that moment) folds
Hero Opens for 3bb
BTN (Villain) now 3bets to 10.5bb, making this either his 3rd or 4th 3bet in a matter of 24 hands, all against me
SB Folds
BB Folds
Hero
7.5bb to call and I'm getting over 20:1 implied odds
Hero calls
Pot is 22.5bb
Flop comes 962 rainbow
Now that I've smashed the board, I'm thinking what's the best way to play this guy who raises and bets a lot. If I donk lead the flop, it'll indicate strength which will give him an opportunity to fold if he's playing trash. Check-Calling is much more deceptive and looks weaker, Check raising IMO looks too strong and he'll fold everytime if he's got weak holdings. So give him some rope to hang himself with.
Hero checks to 3bettor in position.
Villain on BTN Cbets to 13.5bb
Hero calls
Pot is 49bb
Turn is Ks
Hero thinks a bit and then donk leads for 25.5bb. I'm thinking Donk lead because I beat most every hand out there except unlikely KK and 99. Check-Raising the turn looks too strong IMO, he might come over the top with a bluff raise if I donk lead on the smallish side (half pot) you know, he might also call, and I just don't feel the check-call is going to give me max value. If I check-call turn I think he's going to put me on a strong holding going into river, now that I've called down 2 streets. Except for flopped quads and full houses, I'll be honest, I don't really like to slowplay much, even 2nd set on the flop, 3rd set on the turn, even on rainbow boards. Perhaps it's a leak of mine that I don't slowplay enough? Seems when I slowplay I often get burnt specifically because I did it.
Villain thinks for a bit then comes over the top for a 128.5bb turn shove
Hero snap calls
Pot is 302.5bb after rake
River is 4s
You know what he had? 83o lol
Then I mention the big hand where I won over 300bb ($151 roughly) in the chat to other guys who hadn't seen it yet because the girl was running a delay on her stream and my poker coach/mentor then says "That was me you stacked, I was going to 3bet you with any two cards" and I said "No that wasn't you, because you don't 3bet with 83o" and then he reconfirmed it was him.
Then we got into a private conversation, and he got really mad at me for donk leading the turn. He told me he was 3-betting any two cards in position against me because he knows beforehand how much I hate being 3bet over and over and over by a guy who has position on me. He was like "Why would you donk lead into the 3bettor (we're talking about the turn play specifically)! How is donk betting a good strategy? You know he's going to fold all his trash when you do that! (Except for him who stacked off on 83o) and I told him the same reasoning as I mentioned in this thread on what I was thinking on the turn. He told me my play was terrible. Then he said "I only went all in because it was you, because I think you're capable of doing that shit with so many retarded hands".
It's just kind of funny I picked off another massive bluff again by him.
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