A big bluff. The guy was a tag so I think he was bluffable. He had folded to cr before. But, in this case I figured I had committed so many chips preflop I had no choice but to continue. I put him on a pair after the flop but, then when he called my turn cb I figured he had a draw and had no choice but to stick it in at the end. How often do you guys find yourself in this situation where you have no choice but, to three barrel your stack on a bluff? PS. Pop quiz/riddle...What kind of gun do poker players hunt with? No Limit Holdem Tournament • 2 Players$10 + $0.50 Heads Up Sit & Go Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter BBHero1390 SBDizzy Ninja1610 Effective Stacks: 70bb Blinds 10/20 Pre-Flop (30, 2 players) Hero is BB Dizzy Ninja raises to 60, Hero calls 40 Flop (120, 2 players) Hero checks, Dizzy Ninja bets 80, Hero raises to 360, Dizzy Ninja calls 280 Turn (840, 2 players) Hero bets 460, Dizzy Ninja calls 460 River (1760, 2 players) Hero goes all-in 510, Dizzy Ninja folds Final Pot: 2270
The flop raise looks too big, as played probably shove the turn.If the guy is tight, just make a normal check raise, then follow through on a turn card such as this (so long as you think he folds enough hands he continues with, which may not always be the case), but think ahead about the stack sizes and remaining effective stacks on the turn and river, so you don't accidentally make him feel "priced in" on your 3 barrel, due to too big of a flop raise size.
I dont really like the c/r sizing. Your setting it up so that you either have to overbet shove turn or bet an akward amount on turn and river. I would either lower the c/r size so that your turn size can be smaller and the river shove is more, or c/r more so that you can shove for a little less than pot on turn. That is all if you are planning on barreling.
I guess what stands out for me is that you're saying he's tight so he's bluffable, that may be the case in some situations but you need to be careful when tight players indicate they have a hand. So what will happen is that if he's calling your C/R you may be screwed, for this to be profitable overall what you need to look for is someone who tends to give up on hands on later streets, indicating someone who likes to chase. I will say this much, you've definitely got balls to put your life on the line by 3 barreling this especially emptying your gun on the river on this with so few chips left relative to the pot. If you do plan on getting your chips in, it's far better to shove the turn, the half pot size bet there bothers me more than the raise size, yeah it's a litttle big but the half pot followed by less than 1/3 pot barrelling isn't going to work a lot of the time. Getting your stack in on a bluff can be a good play but I'd be a little more careful in doing it and just knowing a player is a TAG isn't enough of a read really, everyone folds to C/R's some of the time, they should be folding to them more often than not, you're lucky he didn't have a real hand, he appears to be a horrible player as well, what the hell could he have had here with this line? Anyway this was a daring play for sure and one you need to use judiciously against non-morons ;)
I agree the play sucks and I joined this site to not suck. By the way, the answer to the riddle "What kind of gun does a poker player hunt with?" is a DRILLING. It is a German gun that has two shotgun barrels and a rifle barrel under. So it is a gun you can fire three barrels with.
Drilling, I like that.