FeARFaCTs Poker Blog

This hand was really strange. He's a winning reg and normally tighter but looked to be playing looser at this table. This hand really blew my mind and wasn't really paying attention to it until the river so likely mistake on my part.

In retrospect it kind of seems like a turn shove, not sure if calling is terrible here.

On the river I was initially taken back by the insta shove which in retrospect isn't' as huge as I originally thought and maybe he's not bluffing here with 100 into 200 on the river? Also didn't think he was capable of shoving super light either. Obv the flush is on board and i have the Qs so there are so many few combinations of nut flushes he can have, basically just KJs and that's it. With that in mind his move seemed a lot more polarized towards nuts or air here and he's likely not doing this with AK- either. Not sure what anyone else thinks about this hand but hats off i suppose to him for making this river shove which is good obv, just thought he was too much of a nit to make it.

What about raising the flop? Or is it useless and he won't fold often enough? I don't know... I only hate AQ (even IP) against a reg in a 3bet pot.

I think this is a really easy river shove for them, especially with the As on board. Another flop cbet just for the sake of cbetting by them as well. I think putting in more action on the flop is better than on the turn on this board. Yes their range is polarized, but their bet sizing is value and I don't like this board at all to be firing off bluffs.