There hasn’t been a ton of money changing hands lately in the highest-stakes games on CoinPoker, but ‘DogeCoinMaximaliste’ and ‘Giselle54’ did mix it up at $1,000-$2,000 blinds with a $400 ante on Monday. The two high-stakes regulars played old-fashioned four-card PLO and battled with stacks as deep as 200 big blinds. Despite that, DogeCoinMaximaliste booked a modest $100K win.
Though the match ended up on the tame side by net-win standards, there were still some interesting hands played.
Giselle54 Stacks Off With Mediocre Draw
Playing 54 big blinds deep, Giselle54 limped in on the button and then called a pot-sized raise to $6,000 from DogeCoinMaximaliste.
The flop came Q♥7♥5♠, and DogeCoinMaximaliste bet $6,350. Giselle54 made it $22,000, and DogeCoinMaximaliste potted to $78,700. Giselle54 jammed the last few bucks in. DogeCoinMaximaliste called for $102,700.
Giselle54 had A♥J♦6♥3♥ for a gutter with a flush draw. DogeCoinMaximaliste had 9♦9♥7♠7♦ for middle set. The turn and river were the K♣ and 6♣, and DogeCoinMaximaliste won a $218,200 pot.
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Hand Analysis
Giselle54’s hand would be a standard raise at 100 big blinds. At 50 big blinds, hands oriented around making the nut flush lose some value, since lower flushes become more comfortable hands to stack off. Raising and calling a three-bet with a hand like this would be ugly, but raising and folding is letting go of too much equity in position in many cases. So, limping is a nice solution and keeps some ace-high suited hands in the limping range.
On the flop, DogeCoinMaximaliste could either bet and try to get stacks in or check and go for a check-raise. Middle set can be dicey in some situations at deeper stacks, but at 50 blinds, it’s a slam dunk hand to shovel the money in. Blocking a heart and some hands that semibluff with the 9-9 combo, betting is optimal.
Against the half-pot lead, Giselle54 decides to raise and get stacks in.
Unblocking the board pairs is bad here because it makes it more likely DogeCoinMaximaliste has a hand that wants to get stacks in. On the other hand, the semibluff is a nice option holding three hearts. It puts some immediate pressure on hands like K♥ with no flush draw that are good c-betting combos.
Against the flop three-bet, Giselle54 has no choice but to get the money in, and bricks send the pot the other way.
DogeCoinMaximaliste Gets to Showdown After Semibluff Connects
Playing much deeper with 163 blinds, Giselle54 raised to $6,000, and DogeCoinMaximaliste called.
After the Q♣8♦4♥ flop, DogeCoinMaximaliste checked, Giselle54 bet $9,525, and DogeCoinMaximaliste raised to $30,337. Giselle54 called. DogeCoinMaximaliste continued for $48,000 on the 8♣ turn, and Giselle54 called. On the 6♦ river, DogeCoinMaximaliste checked. Giselle54 checked back.
DogeCoinMaximaliste showed J♦7♣6♣5♣ for a straight, and it was good for the $169,475 pot.
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Hand Analysis
Wraps can be good check-raising candidates on rainbow flops, but DogeCoinMaximaliste still takes a pretty big risk with this flop play.
For one thing, even though all of the wrap’s immediate outs are to the nuts, there are some higher straight draws present with the Q-8 flop. That increases the chances that Giselle54 can continue, as well as the chances of making a straight on the turn that is beaten on the river. Furthermore, DogeCoinMaximaliste doesn’t block any of the pairs.
Calling is more standard in this spot, as raising and facing three-bet out of position is not an attractive proposition with a draw like this.
Once the turn comes and brings a combo draw while pairing the board, DogeCoinMaximaliste has no choice but to keep bluffing. This isn’t a good enough hand to check-call when it could be drawing dead, but it has decent equity against everything but a full house, so it just has to go in the bluffing range when acting first.
Once Giselle54 calls and DogeCoinMaximaliste makes their straight, it’s time to check and try to show down. It would be okay to bet the river against weaker opponents who will pay off too often, especially blocking the rivered full houses and not having faced a raise.
Facing a small bet, Giselle54 could try to turn trips into a bluff, since that sort of hand has less value as more money goes into the pot. But against a check, bluffing those hands isn’t generally advisable, as they have too much share of the pot.
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