Just bragging, but this was the play of my life so far.
 

I was in top 7 in chips with 24 left when this hand was played.


PokerStars Game #2976170703: Tournament #14414058, Hold'em No Limit - Level XVI (3000/6000) - 2005/11/05 - 00:20:04 (ET)
Table '14414058 68' Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: gaven1127 (84366 in chips)
Seat 2: akjohn1 (125414 in chips)
Seat 3: cc&7 (73364 in chips)
Seat 4: jgpoker (216308 in chips)
Seat 7: BigPimp18721 (74179 in chips)
Seat 8: vtech 9000 (106205 in chips)
Seat 9: Sharp215 (192336 in chips)
gaven1127: posts the ante 300
akjohn1: posts the ante 300
cc&7: posts the ante 300
jgpoker: posts the ante 300
BigPimp18721: posts the ante 300
vtech 9000: posts the ante 300
Sharp215: posts the ante 300
cc&7: posts small blind 3000
jgpoker: posts big blind 6000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to akjohn1 [Qd Qc]
BigPimp18721: folds
vtech 9000: folds
Sharp215: raises 18000 to 24000
gaven1127: folds
vtech 9000 said, "her did the mash he did the monster mash"
akjohn1: raises 36000 to 60000
cc&7: folds
jgpoker: folds
Sharp215: calls 36000
*** FLOP *** [Ad Kd 5h]
Sharp215: checks
akjohn1: bets 20000
Sharp215: raises 20000 to 40000
BigPimp18721 said, "vtech do you mind if i ask u where abouts in cali r u"
vtech 9000 said, "cali?"
BigPimp18721 said, "calgary"
vtech 9000 said, "calgary u mean"
akjohn1: raises 25114 to 65114 and is all-in
Sharp215: calls 25114
*** TURN *** [Ad Kd 5h] [7d]
*** RIVER *** [Ad Kd 5h 7d] [5s]
vtech 9000 said, "nw"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Sharp215: shows [Jd Js] (two pair, Jacks and Fives)
akjohn1: shows [Qd Qc] (two pair, Queens and Fives)
akjohn1 collected 261328 from pot

Re: Just bragging, but this was the play of my life so far.
 

Dude, you misplayed the hand. You reraised on the flop thinking you could get a king or a weak ace to fold. You couldn't even get JJ to fold. Your thinking was off. If you really thought you were ahead, you also misplayed this as he was drawing slim to none and you gave him an opportunity to get away from it for cheap.

So congrats. You donked it, and got very lucky.

Re: Just bragging, but this was the play of my life so far.
 

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So congrats. You donked it, and got very lucky.

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Re: Just bragging, but this was the play of my life so far.
 

This is almost an auto-muck for me, CSC, how would you play it?

I really think that dropping these is a leak, and would love some advice on it.

Re: Just bragging, but this was the play of my life so far.
 

OMG What a play!!!

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Re: Just bragging, but this was the play of my life so far.
 

someone wanna post a better line?

not that Im defending his, trying to patch up some leaks here.

Re: Just bragging, but this was the play of my life so far.
 

When he called you, were you happy, knowing you'd trapped him into calling with JJ? I doubt it. I suspect you screamed "No!!! FINE!!! You win with your precious, unfoldable ACE RAG YOU *********ing ***** of ******ing *****"

Yes I have screamed this many times while making "the best plays of my life".

Re: Just bragging, but this was the play of my life so far.
 

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Dude, you misplayed the hand. You reraised on the flop thinking you could get a king or a weak ace to fold. You couldn't even get JJ to fold. Your thinking was off. If you really thought you were ahead, you also misplayed this as he was drawing slim to none and you gave him an opportunity to get away from it for cheap.

So congrats. You donked it, and got very lucky.

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Sometimes poker is about everything but the cards.

Re: Just bragging, but this was the play of my life so far.
 

Reraising preflop pot commits you because you end up putting in half your stack. The easiest way to play this hand is to just push preflop over the raise. If you fold out villain you still increase your stack by 33%.

Re: Just bragging, but this was the play of my life so far.
 

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This is almost an auto-muck for me, CSC, how would you play it?

I really think that dropping these is a leak, and would love some advice on it.

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Well, there is 130K in the pot and 65K in my stack. So, first I'm going to chastise myself for putting myself in this position, and then I am going to play the hand like I have the nuts. How do you do that? You let the villian begin to believe his 77-JJ is good by checking every street. Yes, I fully expect to lose this hand 50-60% of the time. Villian was OOP and didn't push, I don't think AK/AA/KK are out there, but I'm not getting him to fold any ace, so I might as well play to get him to get his money in if he really does have 77-JJ.