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Two Pair
I know that this sub-forum is generally meant for personal hands, but I wanted to post this hand from an episode of Poker After Dark from 2017, give my thoughts, and ask for yours! I thought it might be fun to hear what other people thought about how this hand was played, and how they might’ve played it differently!
It’s a $100/$200 game, and it’s currently 6-handed. Phil Hellmuth literally just sat down with $20k. Jennifer stilly is UTG and straddles for $400 with $16k behind and Hellmuth is directly to her left. He raises to $1200 with . It folds around to Keating who calls with, and Tilly sees and calls. Pot is $4900.
The flop comes. Keating checks, Tilly checks, Hellmuth checks.
The turn is the . Keating checks, Tilly bets $3k, Hellmuth snap calls, and Keating folds. Pot is ~$11k.
The river is the . Tilly bets $5k and gets snap called by Phil Hellmuth and sees Tilly turn up the K and kind of loses it (not a surprise).
My biggest question is: how do you not let go of JJ here?? I don’t think Tilly’s range is not at all polarized here, and she took a fairly standard line by checking to the aggressor post-flop, then betting the turn and river for value. What does Hellmuth think she has that he can possibly beat? He’s blocking straight draws with JJ, he can’t beat a flush, and he can’t even beat a flopped T! The only thing I can think is that maybe he put her on some sort of Ax hand with ? JJ is only a bluff catcher here, and he loses almost half of his stack on the first hand.
I just thought that, even though this hand was played in a fairly standard way, calling with JJ is pretty ridiculous. Again, I’d love to hear anything that you guys have to say about this!
It’s a $100/$200 game, and it’s currently 6-handed. Phil Hellmuth literally just sat down with $20k. Jennifer stilly is UTG and straddles for $400 with $16k behind and Hellmuth is directly to her left. He raises to $1200 with . It folds around to Keating who calls with, and Tilly sees and calls. Pot is $4900.
The flop comes. Keating checks, Tilly checks, Hellmuth checks.
The turn is the . Keating checks, Tilly bets $3k, Hellmuth snap calls, and Keating folds. Pot is ~$11k.
The river is the . Tilly bets $5k and gets snap called by Phil Hellmuth and sees Tilly turn up the K and kind of loses it (not a surprise).
My biggest question is: how do you not let go of JJ here?? I don’t think Tilly’s range is not at all polarized here, and she took a fairly standard line by checking to the aggressor post-flop, then betting the turn and river for value. What does Hellmuth think she has that he can possibly beat? He’s blocking straight draws with JJ, he can’t beat a flush, and he can’t even beat a flopped T! The only thing I can think is that maybe he put her on some sort of Ax hand with ? JJ is only a bluff catcher here, and he loses almost half of his stack on the first hand.
I just thought that, even though this hand was played in a fairly standard way, calling with JJ is pretty ridiculous. Again, I’d love to hear anything that you guys have to say about this!