Live 2/5 - Hand Reading Exercise
 

Hand takes place at 3am at the Wynn in Las vegas.

Reads:
UTG Player: Wearing a pokerstars shirt, claims to be a hotshot poker player, says he regularly plays 5/10 NL, hasn't gotten out of line, has been pretty card dead it seems and has not seen many flops, he has not shown any bluffs or any real aggression in the 2 hrs he's been at the table

Button: Weak-tight. Has not seen many flops, but has raised the ones he has seen and has folded many after his continuation bets have faced resistance - have not seen him get very aggressive post flop yet

On to the hand:

UTG ($1200) limps for $5. 3 limpers behind him including the button ($800). SB completes. BB checks.

Flop comes: ($30)

5 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 3 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] 3 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

The blinds check. UTG leads out for $35. Folds to the button who then raises it to $80. UTG then says to the button "you must have aces" and then quickly sets him all in for a gross over-bet of the pot. Button then insta-calls the crazy overbet.

What are their hands gentlemen?

Anyone who guesses their hands correctly gets my utmost respect.

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UTG: KK b/c hotshot pokerstars players are friggin morons

Button: fives full or quads

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Please tell me somebody had 55.

Since you are posting, i am sure at least one of the hands was absurd, my guess being 33.

If you tell me it was AA vs. KK, I will puke, and if it turns out the caller had a bare five, I will laugh. Ok, that ends my lame effort to cover all bases.

EDIT: I hate thinking I will be the first to respond and then finding out someone beat me to the punch.

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im obviously deliriously tired when im making most of my posts, usually coming off a ridiculously long session of losing entire buyins to two outers and flopped the nuts with no action

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53o each, chop chop

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They both have Aces.

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They both have Aces.

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this is my guess as well.

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UTG has aces and button has sixes

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UTG has 55
Button has A3s

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I say UTG has AA & Button has 55 (or 33).

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utg has 55 or 33, button has 3 of some sort (mayb 33, mayb 53, or 55 is utg has 33)

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3-3 for UTG and 5-5 for the button.

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AA for UTG. 55 for button.

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Anyone who guesses their hands correctly gets my utmost respect.

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A hand-reading excercise implies that there's a way to rationally deduce what they have and there's some value to doing so. This sounds more like drawing straws by your comment.

- Jim

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UTG 46h
Button 42c

turn...brick river...brick UTG's 6 kicker is good... just kidding

From how you have detailed the UTG "self proclaimed poker stud" vs. weak tight Button it sounds to me that UTG tried to make a play on the Button and got caught. 55 and 33 seems to obvious for the utmost respect your are proposing.

UTG have nothing and the button shocked the table by calling the HUGE bluff with a pp say 77.

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I say UTG has AA & Button has 55 (or 33).

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I agree except I doubt button has 33 because I dont think he would raise and try to scare anyone away with his quads. I think 55 is quite possible for the button here with his quick call. He has to be sure he's got the nuts or close to it.

Results
 

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3-3 for UTG and 5-5 for the button.

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We have a winner. Congratulations on the great read. You weren't at the table were you?

So yeah, UTG led out for a pot size bet with quads and then pushed for a ridiculous amount when the weak-tight button raised him. He only gets a call from the button when he has 55, which is what he had this time.

The UTG player thought he was a genius for playing it the way he did. I told him he played it miserably and he replied by telling me to "sit with more money next time" so that he could break me like that too. I laughed and ordered another vodka tonic.

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Never even been to Vegas, heh. UTG obviously has a monster, he has no fear of losing the hand. The only real monsters are 5-5 and 3-3...and like you said, button isn't raising there with 3-3.