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PokerStars Game #27398819524: Tournament #158064344, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2009/04/23 7:10:26 ET
Table '158064344 1' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 2: olybosu (3855 in chips)
Seat 5: moiraine (3910 in chips)
Seat 6: Roysden (3430 in chips)
Seat 7: FR Vessant (2305 in chips)
Roysden: posts small blind 50
FR Vessant: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Tc Ah]
olybosu: calls 100

Complete fish, could have anything.

moiraine: folds
Roysden: folds
FR Vessant: checks

It's not worth raising because he will simply call. I'm going to be ahead of his range, but this guy won't fold to a cbet, so I'm going to have to hit to win.

*** FLOP *** [9s Ad 2h]

Nice.

FR Vessant: checks
olybosu: bets 100
FR Vessant: raises 200 to 300

Raise is a bit small, but I don't mind a call because I'm likely to be miles and miles ahead of him.

olybosu: calls 200
*** TURN *** [9s Ad 2h] [Jd]
FR Vessant: bets 500

A healthy bet.

olybosu: calls 500

To be honest, he could have anything here: two diamonds, a weak ace, a jack, any of the available draws, any pair, fuck all.

*** RIVER *** [9s Ad 2h Jd] [7s]
FR Vessant: checks
olybosu: bets 2955 and is all-in

This is very tough. I was pretty sure I was ahead on the flop and turn. He can easily be trying to fold out a bad ace or think his JT or A3 is good because I didn't raise an ace preflop. He could be on a total bluff or he might have made all sorts of hands. I dunno.

FR Vessant: calls 1405 and is all-in

Ultimately, it's hard to fold top pair against this guy. He has just way too many hands I beat in his hand to love folding, although I am thinking I'm probably behind.


Uncalled bet (1550) returned to olybosu
*** SHOW DOWN ***
olybosu: shows [7d 9d] (two pair, Nines and Sevens)

WTF. You know, I'm sick of it. This happens all the time. How can he call preflop? How can he call the raise on the flop? There's no draw on the flop so what can I have that middle pair beats? I am repping an ace, obv. and when I bet nicely on the turn, what else can he think I have? He has five outs to beat me if I didn't pair my kicker already, in which case he has two.

Well, obviously five outs is more than enough against me right now.

Check out what happens when you have eight:

PokerStars Game #27391862954: Tournament #158014164, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2009/04/22 23:52:34 ET
Table '158014164 1' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 2: Freeman88 (1855 in chips)
Seat 3: kiratan (6040 in chips)
Seat 4: buckeye71420 (2250 in chips)
Seat 6: JChas (1575 in chips)
Seat 8: FR Vessant (1780 in chips)
FR Vessant: posts small blind 50
Freeman88: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Jc Jh]
kiratan: calls 100

I'll tell you now, this guy has JTo. So he has a big stack and thinks, hmmm, BROADWAYS.

buckeye71420: folds
JChas: folds
FR Vessant: raises 300 to 400
Freeman88: folds
kiratan: calls 300


WTF though.

*** FLOP *** [9d Qd 4s]
FR Vessant: bets 1380 and is all-in

I shove because his range is really wide and I'd like to get calls from all of it except Qx/99/44/94.

kiratan: calls 1380

He snapcalls. It's not the worst call because even if he's not getting the odds, it's not as bad as some.

*** TURN *** [9d Qd 4s] [Kd]

Obviously his straight comes in.

This is pretty standard, but after a while, you start wishing for them just to fold once in a while. Yes, they are paying you Sklansky money by the barrowload, but you know what, my local shop plain refuses to take Sklansky money, the bastids.