The Dream Scenario

[SternSwiss]

NY times is on break, and I just want to share an amazing hand that I just had.


So mid tournament, faring well, amongst the 3 big stacks on table having all around 4500 chips.


Blinds: 100/200

I get the bullets (AA) preflop and am under the gun aka first to speak.

Since there are often big raises preflop I choose to slowplay (which I never do since it is mostly bad play and hadn't done in much more than a year), hoping for a raise due to table specifics, and then coming with a big reraise.

I get 5 callers and no raise: the bad scenario, which I put myself into fully. Stooooopid! (reason explained here)


But....


But the flop comes and gets two aces and a small card, including two spades.

The jackpot. Now the important thing is to get as much as possible out of this exceptional situation

For my nerd colleagues, I dug up stats...

Chances to get bullets preflop is 0.045% aka 2222:1
Chances of hitting quads on flop is Four of a kind is approx. 01% or 9999:1

Chances of both happening is 0.00045% or....................... 222'222:1 !!!


Both blinds check, so do I, so does the fourth. Last player to speak, dk-chance (one of the other 3 big stacks) bets 200.

I put him on a flush draw: sweetening the pot and getting players out by suggesting he might have an ace.

Everyobdy folds but me.



Turn card: no spade.

I check. He bets 1350. I call


River card: no spade. I am afraid he will fold to any bet.

I check, hoping for a push-bet.

He goes all-in.

I savour the instant and, after a short while, call.



It was a full bluff taken to its end.

As it happens to all, was the worst timing for a bluff-move.


I double-up.


The dream scenario, in other words.

[dkchance]

yes it was me, most of the time i don't fall for it but ,knowing how stern plays normaly he would have bet it if he had the ace and of course he checked so i bet hoping to run him out ,and then he called so i thought maybe 2 pair but boy was i wrong on that hand. just wanted to say great job on that hand i fell for it all the way down . i will watch next time lol i learn from my mistakes and getting better everyday.i need to tighten up little bit, but anyways great job stern

[SternSwiss]

Well, we all make moves every now and then and sometimes we are caught.

Putting all your stack in jeopardy that early, though, is a BIG move.


When I called 1350 on turn (with approx that much in the pot), it's the only place you might smelled the fish and changed options.

But you did represent something coherent (and ace, in the end). Except I had the absolute nuts considering board so it was easy for me...