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A friend and I decided to play a series of 10 heads up matches against one another. I think I misplayed a hand earlier tonight and just wanted a bit of feedback.

Basic info, it was early in the match that had started w/ extremely deep stacks (230BB each). I had a small chip lead of maybe 20-30 BBs.

I am on the button and look down and find 96s. I call the big blind with 69 suited. He calls.

2BBs in pot
Flop comes 2 6 9 w/ 2 of some suit (I forget which). I raise the pot, he thinks and calls. I could put him on any range of hands at this point and have no real read but feel very confident that I am ahead.

6 BBs in pot
Turn comes a 10. He thinks, motions as if he is going to check, and then fires out a 1/2 pot size raise (3BBs). His action confuses me at first and I feel very strongly that he has either A. just completed his straight and is either being indecisive or trying to communicate weakness or B. is on a draw and made that bet to try and freeze the action so he can see his final card on the cheap. I respond w/ a pot size raise to his bet. He reraises me to what amounts to about 20BBs. The pot contains 36 BBs plus his 20 BB raise. I am sitting w/ 200+ BBs left in my stack. At this point about the only hands I can put him on are a straight or a pure bluff. I have never seen him limp on a small pair preflop while playing headsup so I don't see any possibility of a set. There is maybe a 20% chance he is on a flush draw knowing that I might lay down any hand but a 78 when he comes over the top like that. T9 is also a possible holding but feels unlikely based on the action (I think he would have bet the flop or raised my bet w/ that holding). All of this to say that I felt very confident my two pair was drawing to four cards as I trailed his straight.

After concluding that I was way behind, I call. I figured that if I was correct and he has the straight that I have 4 cards in the deck to fill up and bust him or I will lose about 9% of my stack if I miss.

Of course the river hits a 6, he checks, I overbet the pot, he quickly pushes in response, I call and show my cards, he shows me his straight and calls me a nasty name.

I know I was very lucky to hit a 4 outer there. Is my call awful or can it be justified? I felt it was sensible to make a call in that situation because I felt by risking a small portion of mt stack, I had a 10% chance of busting him? I was very confident that if he had the straight he would pay off the full house w/ all his chips. Do the implied odd justify the call or am I just a lucky donkey?

Thanks,

John

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The call is ok given the deep stacks/implied odds.

If you clear the hand reading up, and make it easier to read, you probobly will get more responses.

Sorry if the first one was to blocky.

Live Game. Heads up. Hero has about 240 BBs, Villain has about 220 BBs

HERO dealt 6 9 suited on button.

Hero calls BB and BB checks

Flop 6 9 2 w/ 2 suited cards.

Villain checks, HERO bets 2 BBs (the pot). Villain calls.

Turn 10

Villain moves as if to check, but then instead tosses in 3 BBs. Hero raises to 15 BBs (raising the pot), the Villain just calls.

River 6

Villain checks, Hero Bets 1.5X the pot, Villain moves all in, Hero calls.

Point being I was pretty sure that he had just turned a straight when the 10 hit, I was about 80% confident I had 4 outs left in the hand. There was a 15% chance he was on a pure bluff or semi bluff w/ a draw to the flush. I didn't see the possibility that he had any other hand based upon the previous hands. Am I justified giving a call on the turn knowing I am behind based upon the probability that if he just turned his straight I will likely bust him by filling up on the river?