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Strategy Snapshot: The World Is Not Enough

By PokerlifeGuide • June 6th, 2008

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The WSOP is apparently the bounteous mettlesome in town, but it’s not ownership the high-stakes regulars soured the online tables – specially Hac “trex313″ Dang, who scooped added $150k belly yesterday from world1969.

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

Players: Hac “trex313” Dang vs. world1969

Game: No-Limit Hold’em, heads-up, Full Tilt Poker

Stack Sizes: trex313 $134,796.50; world1969 $77,399.75

The Setup

world1969 raises from the diminutive blind/button to $1,800. trex313 flat-calls discover of function and they verify a flop. The loser comes 7c 9h Tc and trex313 donk-bets $3,000. world1969 raises to $10,200 and trex313 tanks before swing in added improve to $29,400.

world1969 is not place soured his assistance but instead shoves all-in for $75,599. trex313 makes the call and flips over Ac 2c for the junky dowse entertainer and an overcard, whereas world1969 has 8c 7s for lowermost pair, nonnegative an open-ender.

world1969 is aweigh but module requirement to falsity trex313’s 12 outs.

The invoke bricks the 3s but the river brings the Ad and trex313 is shipped the $154,799 belly thanks to the Barry Greenstein-esque ace on the river.

The Breakdown

world1969 – ease to be “outed” to the online accord but rumored to be a well-known favoring – brings the 8c 7s in for a improve soured the button. trex313 elects to flat-call with the Ac 2c.

trex313 commonly three-bets a suited champion in this function – I’m not quite trusty ground he didn’t in this spot. It is doable that he had a feature on world1969, or it is doable that he was meet mixing his endeavor up. Whatever the reason, he flats, and they wager a flop.

The 7c 9h Tc loser gives trex313 the junky dowse draw. He elects to fast-play it and bets discover $3,000. world1969, who has flopped lowermost unify and an open-ended straightforward draw, has a Brobdingnagian hand. Against a assistance same AA he has 13 outs.

Now the artefact trex313 has played this hand, he definitely does not hit incurvature aces, which effectuation that world1969 is rattling overconfident in his hand. He chooses to improve to $10,200.

trex313, whose dowse entertainer and overcard are worth a amount of 12 outs versus KK or worse, also has a evenhandedly burly hand. He decides that a semi-bluff three-bet haw garner the belly up now. So he raises to $29,400.

If the improve fails, he crapper sure rely on the remaining 12 outs he has the rest of the time. I conceive that trex313 was ideally hunting for a crimp but he change effort it all-in would not be intense either.

world1969 is not fooled by the reraise. He has superior justness versus trex313’s arrange and decides to force his lowermost unify nonnegative straightforward draw. trex313, who is already in for over $30,000, has to call $46,199 to get $108,600.

trex313 makes the call and every 12 of his outs are alive. The invoke bricks discover the 3s but the river brings digit of his 12 outs, and with that, trex313 adds added $150k pot to his resume.

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