First hour of 30+3 DeepStack NLHE.
Villain is a maniac, who seems more interested in pulling off big bluffs than playing to win.
Here is a hand I played against him earlier.
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20 (9 handed)
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BB (t3550)
Hero (t6200)
UTG+1 (t4900)
MP1 (t4220)
MP2 (t4990)
MP3 (t4920)
CO (t6550)
Button (t4470)
SB (t5200)
Preflop: Hero is UTG with 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
<font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t60</font>, <font color="#666666">
1 fold</font>, MP1 calls t60, <font color="#666666">
1 fold</font>, MP3 calls t60, <font color="#666666">
1 fold</font>, Button calls t60, <font color="#666666">
1 fold</font>, BB calls t40.
Flop: (t310) 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(5 players)</font>
BB checks, Hero checks, MP1 checks, MP3 checks, Button checks.
Turn: (t310) J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(5 players)</font>
BB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t120</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP1 raises to t560</font>, MP3 folds, Button folds, BB folds, Hero calls t440.
River: (t1430) 5[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">MP1 bets t1520</font>, Hero folds.
Final Pot: t2950
MP1 shows 2[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
Outcome: MP1 wins t2950.
That was actually one of his better bluffs given the way I played the hand and the river card I think he's play was pretty good. However, he had many a few other bluffs on other players that were quite bad, but despite being caught a couple of times was currently sitting on a pretty good stack.
My plan was to wait for a nice hand and then give him rope to hang himself. The question is, is this the hand?
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t30 (9 handed)
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MP1 (t2955)
Hero (t4315)
MP3 (t3685)
CO (t10400)
Button (t9510)
SB (t8815)
BB (t4490)
UTG (t3735)
UTG+1 (t7310)
Preflop: Hero is MP2 with J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
UTG calls t30, <font color="#666666">
2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t120</font>, <font color="#666666">
1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">CO raises to t690</font>, <font color="#666666">
3 folds</font>, UTG folds, Hero calls t570.
Flop: (t1455) 4[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">CO bets t3690 (my exact stack size at this point)</font>, Hero ???
I saw no point in leading the flop here, because I didn't see it as deterring this player from pushing, even if he had something like AK.