The high-stakes no-limit hold’em action on CoinPoker hasn’t been as consistent as the pot-limit Omaha, but one heads-up match that has recently picked up is a real headliner: Linus ‘LLinusLL0ve’ Loeliger vs. Bjorn ‘asianflushie’ Li.
These two high-stakes online poker titans have been battling at the $100-$200 tables. Loeliger, perhaps the most feared heads-up no-limit hold’em player ever, took a severe beating this past weekend. In a single day of play, Li won $383,909.
Loeliger attempted some creative bluffs, but they all seemed to blow up in his face. Here’s a look at two hands in which Loeliger’s creative lines just ended in him sending more than a full stack Li’s way.
Loeliger Turns Pocket Pair into Huge Bluff
With the players 140 big blinds deep, Li raised to $500, Loeliger made it $2,000, and Li four-bet to $4,900.
Loeliger called, bringing an A♦J♠J♦ flop. Li bet $1,500 after Loeliger check-called, bringing the 9♣ on the turn. Loeliger checked, Li bet $3,600, Loeliger made it $7,500, and Li called. On the Q♣ river, Loeliger shoved the last $14,350, and Li called.
Loeliger had 10♥10♦, but that was no good against Li’s A♣K♠. Li collected a $56,500 pot.
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Hand Analysis
Preflop, Loeliger has a clear three-bet, but pocket 10s aren’t a great holding facing a four-bet at this stack depth. A solver only likes shoving them a sliver of the time, favoring call with everything weaker than Q-Q.
So, the players go to a flop, and Li has a clear continuation-bet for a small size with most of his range. Large pocket pairs from 10-10 through A-A mix some checks, but every hand for the in-position player favors mainly betting a small size.
It’s too early for Loeliger to fold his pocket pair for such a small bet. He rightfully continues.
On the turn, things begin to go off the rails. Li continues barreling for another small size, and Loeliger goes for a non-standard check-raise. Even against the small size, 10-10 starts to fold at a low frequency on the turn. Raising is much too aggressive, and a very strange decision with a hand that blocks some bluffs like K-10 and Q-10. The 10d doesn’t seem like a great card to have either, since that will be present in the bluffing range of the in-position player as well.
Li, of course, goes nowhere with top pair.
Once Loeliger gets to the river with his holding, bluffing again seems quite reckless. His turn raise seems to target hands like K-K and Q-Q, and one of those just became a full house.
Li’s hand is actually close to indifferent on the river against a balanced range of bluffs and value. But if he has an inkling of how out of line Loeliger is, it becomes an easy call, and he was rewarded with a huge pot.
Loeliger Turns Top Pair into Another Huge Bluff
Loeliger and Li were even deeper in this hand, almost 180 big blinds effective.
Action opened with Loeliger raising to $500 and Li making it $2,000 this time.
Loeliger called, and Q♦10♦6♦ flopped. Li continued for a small size, $600. Loeliger called, bringing a 7♠. Li bet $1,600, and Loeliger called. On the 3♦, Li fired a final barrel of $6,300. Loeliger shipped it all in for $31,681 and was met by an immediate call.
Li held A♦9♦ for the flopped nuts, having turned Loeliger’s A♠Q♠ dead. He collected another $71,762.
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Hand Analysis
Again, preflop was normal here. The in-position player shouldn’t bloat the pot with A-Q, as strong as that hand is in this situation. It just doesn’t do that great in a four-bet pot because it will be up against dominating hands too often.
On the flop and turn, everything was pretty standard as well. Li bets with small sizes for value, although he could have opted for a big size on the turn to begin polarizing his range. He may have been using a single-size strategy to simplify.
In Loeliger’s spot, top pair is far too strong to consider folding on either street.
On the river, Li correctly bets with a large but not humongous size. Nutted hands frequently prefer to use massive river overbets in heads-up no-limit hold’em, but the big blind in this scenario will have a lot of medium-strength flushes that want to use this size. Since that’s the best play for the overall range of betting hands, many of the nut flushes will go for that size as well.
Again, Loeliger chooses a hand to bluff with that’s too wide. Top pair with top kicker has a sliver of value as a bluff-catcher, but it doesn’t make it into the bluffing range.
The bluffs in this situation are a little bit non-intuitive because many of the out-of-position player’s weaker calldowns contain a diamond, so they become bluff-catchers. They’re simply going to come from the weakest hands in terms of absolute strength, since blocking value isn’t relevant at that point. Essentially, hands with a pair of 10s like A-10 and K-10 make up a lot of the bluffs because they’re the weakest hands the big blind gets to the river with.
Surprisingly, even Q-10 bluffs almost half of the time in the solver.
A-Q is too high up in the range to bluff without overdoing it, and Loeliger gets punished when he finds out Li has the nuts.
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