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and also, tex's bust hand was not a bad move. it was a typical squeeze play. the button raised three handed, which means two cards. the SB just called, not showing much strength. there was plenty of money in the pot and tex had plenty of folding equity against a button open raiser and a cautious SB. he would never put the SB on JJ because 99% of players would reraise in that situation.

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Hi. Thank you for your response. The squeeze play you mentioned can only work when the original raiser seems week and capable of laying his hand down facing a big raise. I don't know whether Barch had any kind of tell from Dennenmann, but he is going nowhere with pocket 7s. About Hachem's call (instead of reraise) with JJ (this is a monster in a three-handed table), I think it is a perfectly legitimate strategy, even though you hate overcards showing up on the flop. If this play was made at a 5-6 handed table, Hachem must have reraised.


Moreover, there is a previous situation here because of which Barch shouldn't make this type of play.

On Hand 220 (6 hands before), Hachem raises from SB to 0.6 million, Barch reraises from BB to 2 million, and Hachem reraises all in. Reraising from BB indicates tremendous strength, but Barch eventually folded his cards meaning he overplayed his hand here. How did the other players remember Barch's play? That he could reraise less than a pristine hand and lay it down. Indeed, in his interview with CardPlayer.com, Barch regretted not making this play a hand earlier when Dannenmann was playing 4-2 against Hachem's J-2. Bad timing indeed [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img].