Weird High Stakes Hand
A hand I noticed on the Highstakes database caught my eye recently. It is between Patrik Antonius and pr1nnyraid :-
It is $500/$1000 NL Holdem, Heads up. Stack sizes are $218,998 for Antoinus and $229,994 for pr1nnyraid. Previous history between them is important and also how the match was being played up until that point but obviously we are going to have to do without that information.
pr1nnyraid raises to $3000 and PA just calls. Pot size : $6000.
The flop comes J
K
5
.
PA checks and pr1nnyraid bets $5000 which PA checkraises to $18,000. pr1nnyraid calls the raise creating a pot of $42,000.
The turn card is the 2.
PA bets $31,000 and pr1nnyraid calls creating a pot of $104,000.
The river comes the 7.
PA has $166,998 left and checks. pr1nnyraid overbets the pot with a $177,994 bet. PA check calls this over bet and shows AK
. pr1nnyraid shows K9.
PA scoops the double stack sized pot with top pair, top kicker.
This hand is bizarre on so many levels. Discuss! Alternatively laugh at the following which is quite well done, poor Clonie, shes gets such a tough time on them forums =)
It is $500/$1000 NL Holdem, Heads up. Stack sizes are $218,998 for Antoinus and $229,994 for pr1nnyraid. Previous history between them is important and also how the match was being played up until that point but obviously we are going to have to do without that information.
pr1nnyraid raises to $3000 and PA just calls. Pot size : $6000.
The flop comes J
K5.PA checks and pr1nnyraid bets $5000 which PA checkraises to $18,000. pr1nnyraid calls the raise creating a pot of $42,000.
The turn card is the 2
.PA bets $31,000 and pr1nnyraid calls creating a pot of $104,000.
The river comes the 7
.PA has $166,998 left and checks. pr1nnyraid overbets the pot with a $177,994 bet. PA check calls this over bet and shows A
K. pr1nnyraid shows K9.PA scoops the double stack sized pot with top pair, top kicker.
This hand is bizarre on so many levels. Discuss! Alternatively laugh at the following which is quite well done, poor Clonie, shes gets such a tough time on them forums =)
posted by TillerMaN | 10:40 PM
5 Comments:
LOL that is strange! It's almost like Pr1 was bluff catching PA but then when PA checked the river decided that PA likely had only a one-pair hand with a better kicker as he'd value-bet 2pr+ and elected to turn his previous bluff-catch holding into a bluff. Probably not too bad a line as AK/KQ/K10 really has to fear KJ, sets and in the case of KQ/K10 higher kickers.
As for PA it looks like his line was to slowplay AK pre for which he got a pretty good flop. Having check-raised, been called, value-bet and been called again he's now wondering if he's actually beat and furthermore not seeing what hand can still call a decent sized bet. In a total role reversal PA then seems to turn his value hand into a bluff catcher on the river.
Looks like another case of Antonius figuring out what works best vs his opponent & making him second guess himself to death, I'm sure fear of being bluffed here was a factor for Pr1 + its HU & thats a sick game for self control... maybe this was the first time he hit the flop in 40 hands and it all got a bit out of proportion :p
I think Pr1 is valuebeting the river making it look like a bluff with the giantic bet, thinking that PA would valuebet any KX+ hand. Also PA checked the river to induce a bluff or a thin vb.
I saw this one too and was equally confused
In the 2p2 thread Pr1nny claimed this shove was primarily for value, but other than that he was largely unwilling to discuss it at all. I'd certainly like to know what Pr1nny thought Patrik's calling range was to make >50% WSD for K9
I think the only thing that's clear is it was definitely a mistake by Pr1nny
Either a mistake in itself, or a series of past mistakes that somehow made this shove the correct play
But they're nosebleed geniuses so I'm sure this is just a massive cooler being crushed under the weight of their unfathomable genius
And we're all just little ants and this play is just so far beyond our comprehension that for us to even attempt to understand the brilliant and perfected logic behind even one action in this brilliant amazing hand would be an act of complete futility etc =)
I watched a previous HU match of theirs' where pr1nny was really mixing up his overbet shoving when deep. The first and second times he did it patrik folded, another time he called and patrik was shown a set, some other times he's done it I believe he's shown a bluff when patrik folded. But I think this river shove is definitely for value, as he's mixed up his frequencies so much that he's trying to get patrik to think he's trying to get him to fold with a hand like QT and get looked up by any J or a couple of worse suited Kings that patrik might defend OOP HU, and then CR 2-barrel for value and to protect his hand.
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