Quote Originally Posted by TDM100
This aint a fluke huh?
He routinely plays like this does he?
Great skill to own then.
Haha, well obviously I don't call with hands like this very often. Considering the buyin for this tourney ($650), the amount of chips I had compared to the blinds, the fact that its on the river so I'm not drawing to anything, and the weak holding I had compared to the board, I think this is probably the best call I've ever made of this type. But its not a fluke in the sense that I typically call on this kind of crap and happened to win one, as its probably the weakest hand I've ever called a bet like this on, win or lose.

But its certainly not something I can do every hand either. If this guy raised me on the flop or turn I would've been gone very quickly. He gave away his weak holding from the way he played it, and I was able to smell out the bluff.

I also agree that the check was the reason he bluffed. Just like I knew that if I bet on the river and he called or raised he'd have me beat, he knew that if I bet not only did I have him beat but I'd probably call a bluff raise, and I'm sure he would've just folded there. I gave off a big sign of weakness and then smelled out that he was even weaker than I was because he overbet so much. Also, you'd have to figure that if he had a J or weak ace he'd probably take the free showdown, as I had been representing a strong ace all the way up until the river. He's only going to bet the monsters and the shitholdings on the river, and I think he'd be more likely to value bet in a case like this with a monster, since I've shown a ton of weakness on the river. He can't be expecting me to call an all in, so he must want a fold very badly.

Thanks for the complements, though, Mike.