Weird-ass hand

[howardtreesong]

I ended up at the Vic for a while this weekend around work commitments. While waiting for a 5-5 PLH game, I sat in a capped-buyin 1-3 NLH game. Going into the hand, I have 610 quid and my opponent slightly less

Comments

[purplehaze9]

So wait a minute, you never declared that you called the 100? The dealer made the call for you?

wtf?

Tough beat though.

[gunga_galunga]

I think the dealer was saying that the 100 pound chip was a call since he didn't say "raise" (and not raising with the nuts is, well, nuts).

[purplehaze9]

Wow indeed.

Only calling with Ah6h lol

[howardtreesong]

If he manages to actually get his raise in right, I'm only calling. It feels weird to only be able to call with quads, but that's clearly the situation here. This hand was actually a win for me given that I should have lost rather more.

[purplehaze9]

Would you really be able to muck quads if villain shoved the river?

[howardtreesong]

No, I don't think I can lay it down to a single raise, especially because Mr. Hedge Fund is just the sort that will shove-bluff with a huge overbet. At 1-3, there's 21 in PF, then another 30 on the flop and my 25 bet on the end and his call, so there's about 100 in the middle. We each have about 500 behind, so no way I can muck quads to a single raise.

But: I bet 25 on the end and he put in a 100 chip. If the dealer says that's a raise, I'm just calling rather than shoving on the end. Call me a weak-tight nit who isn't capable of raising quads, but it's hard to see him calling my third-bet raise on the river with anything but 22, 33 or 55. His holding the Ah and the Ah is a much more likely holding given the way he played the flop and the turn.

As it happens, he held both the Ah AND the 6h, for an ultrarare six-card straight flush.