6maxNL Tourney 12th/902 Hand-by-Hand

Fold fold fold, blinded around to this hand. No reason to play it any faster. I guess he had something like or . Pretty standard.

— played it strong on purpose. I don’t think it’s a good spot to mess around in. I remember he even asked me about a minute later if I had .

A few folds and then the hand from the intro — it was timing “tells” that let me get away with this. You can’t see in the replayer but he was weak and I knew it. He was overplaying 2 spades and I “obviously” had an overpair.

This just looked to me like a really lame steal attempt. Plus he needs a strong hand to play back at a raise here and I had the anyway so, easy move.

New table. Again, an inexperienced tourney player gave away his weakness with his timing. So I shut down the turn with an overbet to get rid of any draws. Don’t want to take any risks there.

It’s always nice to get a free run into 2 pair. My spidey sense told me that it needed protecting though so I bet out strong to take it down.

Blinded down. Not the most difficult decision I’ve ever had to make.

Not the most interesting hand ever. Kind of a questionable raise I guess. I had a couple of raise and take the blinds either side of this one with and too.

My 6th or maybe my 7th sense told me to take this one on the turn but my betting wrist went limp at the last minute. The river was just asking for it. In retrospect, it looks like a dangerous move, but at the time it felt like a certainty.

This hand replayer thing that I’m using doesn’t work unless the hand sees a flop but in between these two hands I caught in the SB. UTG (pronke) called, Button (welllbet) raised to $1,500. I 3bet to $5,200 and both folded. I think welllbet made a good laydown with a middle pair. I probably should’ve just shoved to make it look more like .

This dude had already made a few baby bet steals in hands with other people but that wasn’t going to happen here. Calling would be ugly poker. Raise ftw.