Scenario is final table of a cheapie $1 No limit texas holdem t.
4 players remain ..Blinds are at 2k/4k
There has been one super aggressive player at the table and i engaged in a battle with him which resulted in me being eliminated.
I am in the BB with pocket deuces, and this is a hand i like to play with...sort of one of my favs to hitting sets...my chip stack is at around 34k he is solid at 48k ..he is in the small blind and raises me 10k...i probably had no right to call this large raise but i do.
Flop comes 34j Rainbow..........I check...He calls a bet of 6k...i cant say why but i truely believed he didnt pair up board or had pockets in hand and was trying to take this pot cuz he dedicated to it...He has been all in on several other medium hands and this bet was a "fishing" one.... so i take one of my biggest gambles and i re-raise him all the way in.......with just pocket deuces and 3 overcards on the table.
Big hesistation from him ..he then proceeds to call me...he turns over q 10 suited............WTF!!!!!!!!! You gotta be shitting me..how can he possibly call on that..maybe he put me on a bluff? w/e..anyway turn is junk and river is a 10 and he knocks me out.............
Makes you wonder...I read him like a kids book..made the right move in my opinion and shazzam the damn rookie hits on river...horrible horrible .......
You had no reason calling that raise to begin with. Think about it... the only way you could win is flopping a set and the odds are stacked up against u there. Sure, u were ahead and he caught the card on the river, but statistically it was 50/50 preflop, plus he had a decent chip lead over u so he could gamble, YOU couldnt. I just dont like playing small pairs especially 2s...
Was it a bad beat?? Possibly... but u could have avoided it to begin with.
yeah that sucks when there is that much money at the table. But hey, you have to gamble in my opinion because first place payout is so much higher than any others. I would rather get fourth 3x and 1 once than get third or second. You made a move and he called proably because it was a dollar tourny and he is not that good of a player, and he was proably figuring he had "pot odds" because it only was about another 15000.
