One of my better reads.

eh... I wouldn't brag about that play man. It's risky going all in there when the 3rd ace hits, you don't know if he's got Ace-Rag or maybe he was slow playing a set. That is def. a -ev move.

2nd ace*

he had some lower premium pair probably..

No, this was definitely +ev.

checking the turn made it seem like a bluff on the river

maybe you should have pushed on the turn?

if he indeed has a premium pair lower than aces, the river would have helped him make the call, since theres 1 less possible ace out there.

I can't tell if you're joking chris, but for your sake, I hope so.

And if you're not, come play with me!

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That player will fold that hand on the river 60% of the time at least.

Any better player will agree that a huge all in blast there is a mistake. It is -ev as well.

You are a hack.

you suck

that is not how you play to win on .1/.25 sir

actually the way you played every single street here was pretty pathetic, including preflop

Would it be better to fold there? I thought about that yesterday. If you call preflop and someone raise after you and you call its a little obvious for the other players what you have.. most of the time either a suited connector or a pocketpair. Therefore they might not pay you off when you hit something good on the flop! If it's only .75 more I guess you have to call, but in this case some guy raised 8x big blind, so a fold might be good? :o

sharp_tack makes a heavy raise preflop -- he has high pockets, about even odds between AA KK and QQ and slightly less for JJ

I flat call preflop -- I'll flop a set about 1/8th of the time and by the size of his raise it seems obvious that I'll break him if I do. There's no question that this is profitable, in fact you yourself recommended this kind of preflop play to me

I reraise on the flop -- sharp_tack always bets on the flop when he was the bettor preflop, without variation. Here I'm putting up 7 chips to net 7 chips if I win. sharp_tack's bet means nothing, he's capable of folding here with his high pair, so I put the chances of him folding above 50/50 which would make this raise a profitable play

He flat calls -- this deviates from his typically aggressive play on flops where he hits. His high pocket pair is not AA

He checks on the turn, I check on the turn -- he's given me credit for an ace with a bad kicker and his hand doesn't beat that

Ace falls on the river -- Lucky me. I now conceivably have incentive to push my entire stack into the middle considering what sharp_tack thinks I have. I have 17 chips, there are 17 chips in the pot. At this point there's no doubt in my mind that he'll fold to a push more often than he won't. The correct play therefor is to go all-in

This isn't something that happens often, but if I happen to be watching a tall stack at one of my tables and am able to form a decent idea in my head of how that player plays (basically if they're mechanical enough) and just the right hand comes around, I'm going to feel very confident making plays at them

Anybody can look at this hand and they'll think it's in the red, because the hand history doesn't log psychology, which is all I was using to justify each of my plays. It makes the numbers look ludicrous, which is why I said right away that I had a decent read on him