Villain who lets me keep my stack *boggle*

Could have easily had me broke, no way i put him on this hand. Nice guy? Heh. Afterwards he said "We were both slowplaying, what a pity" ...But no river raise =


Dealt to me : [ 5H,5D ]


ANTES/BLINDS
awarunn posts blind ($0.25), funkfella posts blind ($0.50).

PRE-FLOP
Apmarko folds, PokerPatNEU calls $0.50, dollabilla1 folds, chall420 folds, bond 007z folds, c-strong calls $0.50, xhou folds, nikemac folds, awarunn folds, funkfella checks.

FLOP [board cards 5C,7H,AD ]
funkfella checks, PokerPatNEU checks, c-strong checks.

TURN [board cards 5C,7H,AD,9S ]
funkfella bets $0.50, PokerPatNEU bets $2, c-strong calls $2, funkfella calls $1.50.

RIVER [board cards 5C,7H,AD,9S,4C ]
funkfella checks, PokerPatNEU bets $6, c-strong calls $6, funkfella calls $6.

SHOWDOWN
PokerPatNEU shows [ 5H,5D ]
c-strong shows [ AH,AC ]
funkfella mucks cards [ 9C,KS ]
c-strong wins $24.75.
SUMMARY
Dealer: nikemac
Pot: $25.75, (including rake: $1)
PokerPatNEU, loses $8.50
dollabilla1, loses $0
chall420, loses $0
bond 007z, loses $0
c-strong, bets $8.50, collects $24.75, net $16.25
xhou, loses $0
nikemac, loses $0
awarunn, loses $0.25
funkfella, loses $8.50
Apmarko, loses $0

That was very nice of him, he could have leaked your stack the whole hand if he wasn't being so accomodating.

Well i can understand his flop/turn play. He doesnt know i have a set too. But the river call

Agreed, I can remember lots of times a player has let me off when I was willing to call an AI.
But his call is understandable, there are a couple of hands that beat his…36, 68. They are not terribly likely but it is possible.

Originally Posted by PokerPatNEU

Well i can understand his flop/turn play. He doesnt know i have a set too. But the river call

you didnt hear this from me, But...

One time I CALLED a big river bet, on the button, with 4 of a kind... we both had like 3 times the buyin, and I know I would have had his stack... He had top full house... Turned what should have been at $300 pot into a $75 pot!

Guess i'm not perfect after all....

I guess he thought funkfella was check raising, or that you'd both fold to his raise so he would get more if he called and funkfella called behind.

Also, the straight scare. He let anyone who might have been drawing get the card for free so when you start betting on it he might think you hit (which seems odd given he called you down), so he's just careful on the river. If funkfella does check-raise the river then you have to worry about that straight, he was the BB after all, and he doesn't want to get caught by the re-raise if he raises you.

I don't think it's that absurd, certainly not good play on his behalf, but not god awful. He just didn't properly decide whether he thought the straight was there and what he was going to do about it.