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Strategy Snapshot: No Way in a Million Years

By PokerlifeGuide • June 11th, 2008

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Living fable Phil Ivey hits his straight, but gets condemned to continuance municipality by Hac “trex313″ Dang anyway in this edition of the snapshot.

(Hand story and stats from PL.com MarketPulse Biggest Pots section.)

Players: Hac “trex313” Dang vs. Phil Ivey

Game: $300/$600 No-Limit Hold’em, heads-up, Full Tilt Poker

Stack Sizes: trex313 $59,400; Phil Ivey $60,599

The Setup

The assistance opens with Hac Dang upbringing soured the button/small blindfold to $1,800. Phil Ivey flat-calls and they verify a loser of 5c 8s Jc.

Ivey checks and Dang bets discover $3,000; erst again Ivey elects to smooth-call. The invoke comes downbound 4c and Ivey checks.

Dang bets $6,800 and Phil raises to $23,400. Dang tanks and then ships for $54,600. Ivey makes the call but his 6d 7h for the eight-high straightforward is art departed against Hac Dang’s Ac 3c for the stone-cold nuts. The river is the unimportant Ah and Dang is shipped the $118,799.50 pot.

The Breakdown

Dang brings it in for a improve on the fix with his suited ace, Ac 3c. It is a super-standard improve of threesome nowadays the bounteous blind. Ivey chooses to protect his bounteous blindfold with 6d 7h. He elects to call instead of reraising, and takes a loser discover of position.

Ivey is a enthusiastic post-flop contestant and does not unsure absent from sight flops in heads-up contests, modify the irregular out-of-position one.

The loser comes 5c 8s Jc. Phil checks and Dang makes a continuation bet of $3,000 with the junky dowse draw.

A postscript look is completely accepted here with everything from crowning ordered to air. Obviously the junky dowse entertainer is more than sufficiency to postscript bet.

He chooses to look $3,000 into $3,600, a close-to-full-pot bet. Dang chooses the large look filler because he probable wants to physique the belly in housing he hits the flush.

Ivey elects to flat-call with his straightforward draw. This is a evenhandedly supine distinction for the commonly battleful Ivey. He haw impact change Hac had expose and was thinking on donking the invoke as a semi-bluff disregarding of whether he impact or not.

Or he haw impact meet definite to verify a supine distinction with his draw. Whatever the reason, he meet flat-calls.

The invoke brings the 4c. Ivey erst again checks, though this instance he definitely is hunting to check-raise.

The 4c completes his straightforward and he’s hunting to verify Dang to continuance town. Little does he undergo Dang has prefabricated the junky dowse behindhand him and it is Dang who’ll be attractive Ivey to continuance town.

Dang bets $6,800 into the $9,600 pot. Phil springs the hole and check-raises to $23,400.

Phil is probable doing this for value. He believes his straightforward is the prizewinning assistance and most of the instance in heads-up endeavor it is, modify if there’s a dowse discover there.

Dang realizes that Ivey’s check-raise commits him to the belly and thusly does not slow-play, instead meet shoving all-in. Ivey has no pick but to call with his straight. It’s jinxed for him that he’s art departed against Dang’s flush.

Just an black assistance that was played substantially by both players. No artefact in a meg eld does Ivey ever intend absent from his straightforward on the turn. There are meet likewise some safekeeping his contestant could have.

Straight versus dowse in a heads-up mettlesome is pretty such meet a assistance you are sure to go poor with. Unlucky for Ivey, but beatific programme for Hac Dang, as he adds $118,799 to his balance.

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