1k HU stars.. wtf is going on???

[raptor517]

ok, so this is a heads up match on stars at the 1k level. both players are very solid. stevesbets plays high and has done VERY well in his online career. assume that player A is a world class level player. one of the best online players in the world. why would he make this play? thoughts?

PokerStars Game #********: Tournament #******, Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2005/06/13 - 07:13:17 (ET)
Table '8934385 1' One on One Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: stevesbets (790 in chips)
Seat 2: A (2210 in chips)
A: posts small blind 15
stevesbets: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
A: calls 15
stevesbets: checks
*** FLOP *** [2h Qd Td]
stevesbets: checks
A: checks
*** TURN *** [2h Qd Td] [As]
stevesbets: bets 90
A: calls 90
*** RIVER *** [2h Qd Td As] [8c]
stevesbets: bets 670 and is all-in
A: calls 670
*** SHOW DOWN ***
stevesbets: shows [Qs Ts] (two pair, Queens and Tens)
A: shows [Jh 6h] (high card Ace)
stevesbets collected 1580 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1580 | Rake 0
Board [2h Qd Td As 8c]
Seat 1: stevesbets (big blind) showed [Qs Ts] and won (1580) with two pair, Queens and Tens
Seat 2: A (button) (small blind) showed [Jh 6h] and lost with high card Ace

holla

[YourFoxyGrandma]

Drunk?

[Rolen]

Was probably curious as to what Steve had!

[jah0550]

a misclick perhaps. if player "a" is world class, he is probably playing a few tables at the same time and misclicked, because there is no way that anyone calls this. his pot odds were aweful and called a 6x the pot bet with jack high..."he called me with jack high!!"

[Sabrazack]

He put steve on 96d of course!

[FatalError]

tilt

[DonButtons]

not a misclick, he used his timebank

[adanthar]

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not a misclick, he used his timebank

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drunk click

[microbet]

Gigabet wanted to see what he had, put him on a worse hand, and thought he'd win no matter what.

[Moonsugar]

metagame?

[jeffraider]

He had a double-gutshot to go along with his J-high, so he had SOME showdown value.

lol

[mjm]

I don't accept the idea that he is drunk, a world class player is unlikely to be playing drunk & if he is this drunk he wouldn't be chip leader heads up in a $1k tourney. Nor do I believe accidental click!!

So my guess is he is screwing with his opponents head. He is still chip leader at the end of the hand, and his opponent is likely to play less than optimally after seeing his opponent call an all-in bet with J high.

Still doesn't seem +EV to me, but then i'm not very good!

[curtains]

I like how raptors threads now always end with the phrase "wtf is going on???"

[mjm]

ok he's no longer chip leader but still pretty much even.

[freemoney]

i dont know if anyone saw the interview of the guy Johnny Bax on cardplayer.com where he talks about gigabet giving him a lesson where he said he didnt understand a word he said, it just reminded me of many of the posts gigabet writes.

[DonButtons]

I think giga is a fish in those hu sngs, lol...I hope he came back up in $, but I usually check who wins, and he was down 4-1, or 5-1 games to stevebets. I recommend him just playing full table sngs /images/graemlins/grin.gif

But it also is a weird bet from stevesbets on the river, he usually makes small value bets, and this bet smelled fishy to giga I guess. But to call with J high, you only beat a small hand range, where I think its hard to make this call profitable, as I would rather keep the big stack vs steve.

[BabIsASlut]

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both players are very solid. stevesbets plays high and has done VERY well in his online career.


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Unless your definition of doing VERY well includes constantly being in 5 figure debt, you have no idea what you are talking about. Please tell me this is sarcasm. Stevesbets is terrible.

[StevesBets]

Wow, BabIsASlut, you have no idea what you are talking about. I am the biggest owner out there. I'm currently in Las vegas playing in tons of WSOP events as we speak. I'm the best heads up player on Poker Stars. If the site weren't rigged, and I weren't the most unlucky player in the history of poker, id be a millionare already. The only better rounder I know of is Jtheace2.
That's all.
THE GREAT STEVES BETS

[curtains]

Dont you know there is a rule that anyone who regularly plays for a lot of money has clearly won a lot of money playing poker?