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I'm thinking you are dodging a non 8 or 9 board pairing to counterfeit your hand.

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Nice read. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

I hope everyone doesn't take the result of this as a bad beat post. I posted this because I thought I made a decent play (and it seems that there are people that agree with me so that's reassuring) and maybe actually took a step further in my "poker development" and I wanted to confirm that. I feel very confident that my skills are improving. I'm no longer playing 'robotically'... *and* I've been working hard on being able to narrow down opponent's ranges and I think it's paying off.

I made the right read on this guy and I got the result I wanted (Had the chance to grab his stack) just ran into some bad luck.

Now I have one more trick in my bag. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Oh yeah...The board paired 5s and his pocket Qs took the pot. *sigh*