explain?

Originally Posted by Greedo017

and afterward, they compliment each other on great bet, oh thanks great call. IMO, this is a HORRIBLE BET AND A HORRIBLE CALL, no?

I think the river call is MUCH worse than the river allin bet. i'd have a hard time calling if i had a J much less a dumb Q. i was surprised to see neither had a K OR a J. but you're right, from the disinterested 3rd party presepective, i don't like either play when it comes down to it.

but this does illustrate something about 6MAX: because you end up headsup SO much more often than in full ring, the importance of opponent reads and isolation grows. playing headsup with this frequency makes your bad reads worse and your good reads better. now in this example, the reads these opponents had weren't very good (or maybe the read on the river caller WAS GREAT), we can't know for sure from the information presented here. however, you can see how important they were to the progression of the hand.

EP bets out 15 to see if he's up against a K and gets smoove called. then he does it again hard on the turn when the J falls. if he'd had a J there, wouldn't the set be likely to reraise back hard to prevent a lone A or 10 from catching the straight? When the final K fell, the EP felt as though his opponent did not have the boat, so he went for it. it's not likely he thought his Q was g00t, it's more likely he was playing against the cards he thought his opponent had.

reads, man, reads.