Two of the online high-stakes poker greats engaged each other on Wednesday, as Linus ‘LLinusLLove’ Loeliger and Owen ‘PR0DIGY’ Messere took to the $100-$200 games on CoinPoker. Loeliger built a reputation as one of the most successful online cash players in the post-solver era, and Messere has become a star after winning the first online Cash Game World Championship.
Messere got the better of Loeliger in a couple of key hands, pocketing about $20,000 in the session.
Loeliger Goes into Overbet Mode on Massive Bluff
Playing old-school no-ante heads-up $100-$200 with 150-blind stacks, Loeliger opened to $500, and Messere called.
On the K♥10♠4♣ flop, Loeliger continued for $310, and Messere called. Loeliger bet twice the pot on the 2♦ turn, $3,200. Messere called again. On the 3♠ river, Loeliger shoved for a massive overbet, $26,545.
Messere called with A♠5♦ for a backdoor straight, beating Loeliger’s Q♥5♣ bluff for a $61,110 pot.
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Hand Analysis
Loeliger’s wild bluff starts out pretty normally, with a raise and then a small bet on a flop that calls for a bet-heavy strategy by the in-position player. Messere makes a normal call with a hand that beats bluffs, and things get crazy on the turn.
There, Loeliger has a hand that the solver likes checking. However, it’s not wildly out of line to continue bluffing in this manner. His sizing is good, as the solver mainly favors overbets on this rainbow board. It does like bluffing some similar hands to Q-5, like J-5.
The difference between the holdings might seem negligible, but the key is that J-5 benefits a lot from folding out some queen-high hands. For example, Q-9 always folds the turn facing the overbet. That’s a big win for jack high. Q-5 is blocking more of these auto-folds by the out-of-position player.
Facing the overbet, Messere’s call is good. It’s close in the solver, but given that Loeliger is bluffing too wide, it’s going to be a winning play.
Loeliger’s river play is much the same. Though a pot-sized wager is the favored size, there is plenty of overbet jamming, and J-5 gets in there. Unfortunately for Loeliger, Messere backed into a nutted hand with his bluff-catcher, and the play ends up hugely costly.
Messere Lets Loeliger Blast Off With Overpair
Playing just over 100 blinds, Messere opened to $500, and Loeliger made it $2,100. Messere called.
The flop came 6♠6♥2♥, and Loeliger continued for a pot-sized bet of $4,200. Messere called. On the 9♣, Loeliger barreled again for $6,300. Messere called. The river was the 3♥, and Loeliger shoved all in for the last $8,210.
Messere called with 6♦5♦ for trips, having cracked Loeliger’s 10♦10♣ for a $41,620 pot.
More LLinusLLove vs. PRODIGY action. pic.twitter.com/9OBYTWRqDl
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Hand Analysis
Preflop is normal in this hand, with things getting interesting on the flop. There, a number of sizes are used. Pot isn’t the most common, but it is used, and these weaker overpairs like 7s through 10s are among the best candidates for it. They need the most protection from overcards and benefit the most from building the pot on earlier streets.
The only practical response from Messere is to call with trips. He doesn’t particularly care how the board runs out, as trips will always be strong enough to stack off.
On the turn, the best play for Loeliger would have just been to jam, for many of the same reasons that shoveling maximum money in on the flop with 10s is good. Any overcard could kill his hand, and Messere would still pay off a shove with worse holdings.
Again, calling the turn is best for Messere, as he’s always going to get the money in on the river, regardless of what falls.
As played, Loeliger’s 10s are still good enough to jam the river for value. Messere still has to call with some worse hands, and the solver even calls with some high-card holdings like A-J and K-J.
In the end, this hand was just a cooler, but it’s still instructive to see how aggressively the solver approaches the flop and the turn.
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