Looks like almost everyone is shoving the Turn, though they wouldn't have got themselves into this position. I didn"t really consider anything else on the Turn tbh. This scenario is exactly the reason I floated the Flop. I"ve got what I wanted when I played the Flop like that, so there doesn't seem a lot of point in changing the plan now. He has to put me on something strong and, as mentioned, the flush may already have come in for me, so far as he knows. And I have outs if I"m called. So in it went as soon as he checked. Win this and I"m chip-leader by some distance.
Kinda forgot about the UTG player, didn"t I? I didn"t think he had much, so would he call 15k, almost all his chips? Apparently he would. The Mid-Pos raiser was now in visible pain. He clearly believed he was beaten, but didn"t want to accept that he had put so much in and been called down and quite likely outdrawn. He slowly folded jd jh face up. It was about to get worse for him (though not as bad as for me).
He was surprised when I showed my cards, but not as much as we both were when UTG showed ................. :as:
. The River blanked and the pair of fives took the pot. The JJ guy was pretty unhappy, with my play, the winner's and his own. I could hear a few comments between him and his neighbour about "they both called on the Flop!", which they didn"t seem to appreciate. They didn"t seem to distinguish that we had called for very different reasons. The BB (the AT folder) said that he thought it was a good move and he had put me on something very strong on the Flop.
All the streets could have been played differently, but I think the play is risky but okay throughout. I had a plan and stuck to it when the crucial moment came. However I think it was bad in one particular regard - not so much in flatting pre, floating the Flop, or shoving light - these at least gave me the chance of a big stack. I"m not convinced about jamming the Flop - it"s an option but highly likely to be called here, whereas the float looked much stronger and is much more likely to achieve a fold on the Turn.
I think the huge mistake was in trying that play in a hand against the wrong player. The two good players managed to get away from strong hands when they reckoned they were beaten, but the poor player just called with little likelihood of being in front. Tbh I had kind of overlooked him and hadn't expected him to call on any of the streets and, having seen his cards, wtf was he thinking? My own fault - I forgot about this:
you"ve already labelled one as a station.
