(note: i changed this post to my Massimo account so people weren't confused)

Quote Originally Posted by Ash256
Can you explain hand 1 in depth please? That looks like an amazing laydown from my point of view, so could you give us some insight into how you did it?
ha! amazing laydown? I bet there are players here who would just say 'standard.'

I'll go through it with you.

First of all, the call with 56s is fine because the raiser and i are both deep stacked, so there are huge implied odds.

i flop two pair, so i assume i'm good. He bets hard at the flop, so i assume he has hit something, or he has an overpair. either way, i'm winning. I know that if i call he'll probably bet the turn hard also, so i decided to slowplay. I also don't want to make the pot too large because i only have bottom two pair.

The turn comes an A. He bets really hard, again. The ace was a terrible card because now AQ and AA are beating me, and other hands like KQ or KK won't be as good anymore. Since he bet hard, i'm pretty sure he still likes his hand, and there's really nothing i'm beating. I immediately thought he had either QQ or AQ.

It was kind of tough. It was easier, however, because i was deepstacked. He was obviously going to bet hard on the river, and i didn't want to commit almost my entire stack on a measly bottom two pair.