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an april fool from fate 2010-04-02 - 12:34 a.m. The humor hand of the day came when I had the black aces on the button. The cut-off had the red aces. Needless to say, we built quite a lively pot and wasted quite a lot of time to find out that we'd just be getting our own money back. After rake, one of us made a whole American dollar, and the other made a whole two dollars. Talk about an April Fool from fate. Up a little for the trip but it's wheel spinning mostly thus far. I got on a 2/5 nl table full of nits and I noticed that the man to act after me always called when I open-raised. Then he'd call again on the flop with little or nothing hoping to take it away with the power of position. I would normally use the turn screwplay against this type of player but the table was so nitty that I used an alternative, and it worked just as well -- call the turn, donk the river. Of course it has to be a board where it looks like "something" can happen on the river. For instance, there's a hand where there's one limper, I raise to $20, the next dude calls. Now the big blind is priced in, and we already have an $80 pot going to the flop. 4 players. Effective stacks $700. I catch a piece so check, check, I C-bet let's say $40. You already know who calls, the others fold. Pot is $160. Check, he bets $50. As if. I call. Pot is $260. Board pairs. I bet $75, and he insta-mucks. Ha. Thought so. Here's a hand from early in the day when I was trying to see what I could get away with. 2/5 NL. 1 limper, I raise with J ♠ 6 ♦ on the button. A lot of times, this move gets 3 folds, but for whatever reason, both blinds call, and so the limper calls. 4 players. $80 in the pot. Effective stacks $500. Flop: 3 ♥ 4 ♦ 9 ♣ Check, check, check. I probably should have C-bet right then and there, but this flop didn't look like the kind of flop where many people could find a fold. So I checked. Turn:5 ♠: I picked up an open-ended straight draw. Hey! The big blind bets out $55, and I semi-bluff raise to $140 which I think is enough to fold out some one pair hands without putting me over the commitment threshold. Instead of folding or even just calling, he goes all in. So I fold. No reason he can't hold A2 sooted for the wheel or 76 sooted for the upper end of the straight or any of several sets here, and nothing I saw the rest of the day in this game caused me think that he could have been bluffing. On the other hand, I guess it's equally likely that I misplayed this hand on every street. Speaking of nit city and players who were cautious about pushing: they were still talking about MY bluff from yesterday, when I semi-bluffed all-in on the turn with 8 ♣ 7 ♣ and got called by pocket aces, only to hit my flush on the river. A guy asked me today, "I was trying to remember, did you shove all in or did he put you all in?" Well, I shoved. The flop was something like a QQ4 flop, with two clubs on it, and the way I played it, just calling on the flop and then getting aggressive on the turn, should have looked like I had at a minimum trip queens already. I put him on an overpair, I just didn't realize that he would find it impossible to lay down aces at any price. So, yeah, if you assume that you have ZERO fold equity, it was a pretty bold bluff...At over $1,400, it's one of the bigger NL pots that I've won. back - next All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2002-2017 by Elaine Radford