nice hand ! i had imagin a proper scenario on turn, i decides to check and not conitnue bettin to not arrivin to this close up ,nice hand but too much risky hand in order to manage a stack during a tourney,force him to fold by overbettig the pot was pretty easy but i decided to more conservative approach to the hand, it's not my style this kind of action on this blind level. Nice Mission, thank for this opportunity...GoGoGo!! happy xmas @all

great competition thanks for the oppurtunity of taking part in this fun challenge

crazy hand

Hello heros ! It was very interesting to read all your comments !
Most of you described the best way to play the hand given the information you had, well done !

I remember that this hand was quite fun to play :) I used some information gathered in previous hands to take my decisions.

One of the crucial information I had when I pushed on the river was that the opponent had called on the river with a full house (3rd nuts) in a previous hand when it was very unlikely his opponent had a better hand.
Here, KJ and J8 are the nuts and 2nd nuts, and if he does not raise 3rd nuts they are the only hands he might raise in value.
They are both very unlikely, and it was extremely likely that he was on a bluff.

That's what makes poker interesting and without this info it was impossible to raise all in on the river :(
Well done for all the interesting answers though !

The top 5 of this challenge is :

1. Ben 'Machine' : It was interesting to read the ranges you came up with Ben. Good rational thinking !
2. Adam good thinking too !
3. Alessio you were quite right also.
4. wiliam
5. vatopkr

Good luck at the tables all !

Thanks very much,hystory with the oppo is the key, i had broken the bonus quest too ( and many followed me), i see mr canali had cashout in sanremo ept think was him.. lol.. big up 4 ur career and gl u too :) ciaooo, NIce shot Ben !!

cooooool :D

congrats ben one of ace-high's more knowledgable members  and very talented players well played buddy an yeah 4th place for me congrats too adam alessio and vatopkr also . great competition

Congrats to Adam,Alessio,William and vatopkr. Interesting hand Guillaume, we obviously didn't have that previous hand info so.... :) Well played guys.

Congrats to  @Ben 'Machine' Smith (pack €120 lot), @Adam Piotrowski  (pack €120 lot)  @Alessio Bianchi ( €90 lot) @william (€90 lot) @vatopkr ( €80 lot) !!! :)

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Thanks ! :)

very thank you RKH !!! congrats to all  and  have a brilliant Xmas ... hope on the poker tables live :D ciao ciaooo

im putting him on AK OFF i snap shove over the top all in really fast

snap fold it...we have tryed to have the pot.... other wise if wanna go allin or call what u espect he have? AK/AJ any tribet flat call all way until rasie without any point? i believe he can easy have 99 from the flop and pot control all hand to close up with a raise , as well i supposed from flop he want to trap us, if not have 99 maybe have KJ nuts or KQ topi pair  with good kicker... or Q9 ...hesitation on turn was cause thinkin if we run for dat flush draw maybe and to make a good theatre false tell to improve our braveness nad make us betting. i Fold. we have tryed. No way.

I can see us being behind here. Could be bluffing, but im thinking He's got a lucky KJ hand, or maybe even an unlikely flush. Either way, I don't like our hand much so I'm outta here! 

Totaly fold

Fold

I am putting him on trip 10's and he is hoping you didn't hit the flush. 2 choices shove or fold.

1. We don't have to put him on any specific holdings, the fact is that he reraised our 3rd barrell so we are beat 9 times out of 10 and because his a bit crazy, his never passing anything anyway if we ship. It doesn't matter if he's got it or not this particular time. In the long run, anything apart from folding is not optimal.

2. I don't care wheter his leg is fidgeting or whatever :) He could have been calling 999 claiming to have a heart attack, my K3o here is gone quicker than a cheesy poof in the hands of Eric Cartman :)

 Maybe @Ina RKH ?!?!? :P 

i know who is but if i write here all know it... lol

anyway the answer is : Mr pedro canali

guessing purely by assesing above images - @Pedro Canali :)

@Pedro Canali 

I would guess @Pedro Canali 

me hahahahaahah

Him

i definitevely check and not put any chips more on that board, is very little range of hand we can win Vs... so if i follow the 400 bet flop and 700 bet  turn is time to shoot a 3rd barrel maybe pot or overpotting to close hand and make him foldin the 9 or a low kicker Q... but is really big risk, if oppo hand was J10 had found the 10 we can win only if he had AJ otherwise KJ is Nuts... we have 0 chances and with check probably loose hand.anyway i not invest in a donky bluff 20% of my stack. it's wrong but i check.

Do a doble bet, bluff like crazy ! I will try to push him really much..

First check, than follow Vilain.

Check & answer the bets

The fact that he is acting this way MIGHT represent weakness or MIGHT as well represent strenght. It depends on our previous observations of this particular player.
Without any previous info, trying to get a read is still just a guessing game we should avoid.
Was he acting like that before and was weak? Or was he giving reverse fake tells before in a similar way while being strong?
It would be nice to bet big and make him pass based on a read, but unfortunately we do not have enough information from the history of his previous plays to use this tell out of the blue as a main reason to bluff i'm afraid.

I check behind.

Check..I just want goodies

all in an sit back an smile

i will check back, i have point but very low power, any better news from turn, otherwise villain can found 6 with Ax hands, the donk bet on flop was very little aggressive and i do it to have free card after maybe arrive to showdown in check-check is good for me, my point can be good against Aj/At , if he have a medium pair or higher he had bet now to try take the pot, so or he is without any point maybe in straight draw with j10, or he is monster and is trying trapping us, so i check after thinkin long time. i want he think we wanna trap him to prepare eventually to a low action on river if not come of this river outs " A / K / 8 " as scary cards...i can think also to donk-bet turn half a pot but become too much investment on a trash hand n bottom pair. ( fold prelfop was not alloweed anyway was my action Ndr )

I would check back. Pick up the free card. 

with no folding equity whatsoever against this guy, we definetely have to check behind :)

there are some players who will level themselves into thinking than if you're 2nd barreling on the blank Turn then you must have something - but he is not the type hyhy :)

i have a funny feeling that River is a King :D

probably K of hearts as well hyhyhyhy

well i would take a shot at shutting the pot down now rather than on turn or river i would bet 900 and hope everyone folded and if not we still have the turn an river to improve .an to make a move depending if we improve or not 

I would raise 3/4 of pot, because villain only call and he range could be J10 of hearts, J10o, or K9 , we can bet here to make it fold his pair of nines. I would fire here, because our opponet seems calling station

http://www.rankinghero.com/en/festivals/162/ept8-san-remo.html that's our EPT8 San Remo... maybe digging history can be helpfull :) ?