Hand played by a NL "forum expert" that made no sense to me

[James282]

MP1 is a well known and respected poster in the NL forum. He also talks a decent amount of trash and plays pretty aggro which is why this hand surprised me. MP1 starts this hand with 2491 and SB has 2020. Converter is all [censored] up, so I had to add in any action where money was put in the pot for some reason.

Party Poker (10 handed) converter

Preflop: Hero is BB with J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">5 folds</font>, UTG calls, MP1 calls, CO calls, SB completes, Hero checks.

Flop: 7[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(5 players)</font>
SB bets 100, Hero folds, UTG folds, MP1 calls, CO folds.

Turn: 2[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>

SB bets 325, MP1 calls.

River: 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>

SB bets 525, MP1 calls.

Final Pot: $1997 won by MP1, a 2+2er with 555!? SB shows a befuddled 95s and loses to this strangely played bottom set. Am I wrong or is this just absolutely brutal?

[tdarko]

surely this isn't flex?

[xorbie]

I thought he had quads.

[Malachii]

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I thought he had quads.

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You see why he was voted SSNL forum big dick? Xorbie rules.

[Popinjay]

this is a very dumb post. poker is more than a party poker hand history.

[Big_Jim]

Very odd. I would very much like to hear an explanation as well.

[mgsimpleton]

the range of hands this guy is betting full pot with is something like 2 pair, a set, a straight, or an overpair... as he continues to put on full heat when there is such a dry board, it feels less and less like an overpair, thus narrowing down his hand range significantly... out of 2 pair, set, straifght, i can think of one that isn't calling a significant raise and two that are, you catching my drift? i think this hand was played fine, mp1 got value do to the other guy's aggression and lost the least versus the hands that would actually call a raise. prudent but that's not a bad idea given this flop texture.

[Klepton]

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the range of hands this guy is betting full pot with is something like 2 pair, a set, a straight, or an overpair... as he continues to put on full heat when there is such a dry board, it feels less and less like an overpair, thus narrowing down his hand range significantly... out of 2 pair, set, straifght, i can think of one that isn't calling a significant raise and two that are, you catching my drift? i think this hand was played fine, mp1 got value do to the other guy's aggression and lost the least versus the hands that would actually call a raise. prudent but that's not a bad idea given this flop texture.

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a perfect definition of pwnage

[Durer]

nicely put duck

[Ray Zee]

calling even the turn bet gets scary here. too often you are going to see the straight when you get much money in there. best to call down players that bet too much and fold to very tight players and raise those that bet too often and call in bad spots.