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And here we are.
Biggest tournament I have played, heads-up, and against such a nice girl.
Absolutely equal stacks, she has just 1/2 of BB extra.

Telling to myself, be cool, be cool, keep and eye contact (EYE contact) and dont forget to look at the cards also from time to time.

First hand of heads-up, must be monster, must be monster, monster please.

7♥2♦

 Oh sh.... But never mind, Im king of table today, I can win with anything. No matter she is raising preflop. So best action is some nasty 3-bet, to show her who's the masta here. And that 4-bet will not scare me at all.

So, lets call and use my super edge on postflop play.
Take a chip a put it on cards, you need to protect such super hand.

 A♥4♥5♥

Hmm, its a gutshot. Let's bluf, get the pot by representing some nice flush and keep a gutshot as backup. Boom, she raise all in. Damm, no bluff today. Let fold.

I take that chip of the cards, my fingers are sweating a lot. It slips, Im trying to catch it in the air, but instead I push it even more and it flies into middle of table.

As online player Im not sure what it means, its big chip, did I lost it? I want my chip back.

WHAT, wTH, WTF, OMG what does that mean? Single chip means call? Nooooooooooooo.
Im going to be biggest looser in history of poker, I should tatoo "ATM" on my forehead for rest of my life.
But maybe she was bluffing even more then I did. I still have that gutshot and flush draw. Lets see.
Ups:

2♥3♥

My equity is overhelming 0% (well 0.1%).

6♥

And now, god is even teasing me, by raising my equity to superior 2%.

8♥
Yes, Im going to quit my job and go pro, because all that before was my strategy and I saw that coming.

Im winner, Im winner, WHAT, she still has 1 small blind left?
Why should we even continue, I will just push ATC from now on. Nothing can happen to me, because Im the king.

.............

To be continued....

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#UnibetRoyalFlush Hi, I tell you a cartoon story about one man who's got a RoyalFlush poker hand. Sow once upon time...;) and he  live long and happy. The end:))

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I'd fold the hand. Just a Jersey thing. 

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 Bet on river, after raising all-in

I would send small raise.
Pot is 57k (if table is full), so 19k seems appropriate.#UnibetRoyalFlush 

Why is check bad:
- opponent cannot have any reasonable hearts. So any other hearts on table will totally stop the action and no profit for us.
- we would of course like opponent to bluff. But the best option for him to bluff is check/raise on flop. More cards on board will only bring more danger to him.
- yes, we would give him free card and chance to "improve" and put a lots of chips to pot. But lets see, what "improve" he can get.
- with AK or AQ -> 2 outs to get straight
- with AJ or AT -> 4 outs to get full house8 o
- with AA, JJ, TT -> I dont see those as call preflop. Anyway he will more likely push those now, while there is 7 outs to full house/quads, and there is 8 hearts plus some Qs and Ks. And he will fold trips in such case (its the bubble baby).

- if he already has made hand, there is good chance he will push now. While some dangerous cards of turn would stop him from doing so.

For me:
- with raise we are giving him chance to call with draws, bluff with nothing, push with 2 pairs and better.
- with check we are giving him very small chance to "improve" and push, while there is much more cards, which will make board even more dangerous and making him fold to any raise.

Im not mentioning any face-play. Of course if you can do super-mega-cool fake tells, then just dont read strategy, do it and win tournament.
Otherwise, you just have to do all the same things you were doing all those hands, evenings, sleepless nights before.

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Not to mention the right poker face:

10♥J♥Q♥K♥A♥ #UnibetRoyalFlush 10♠J♠Q♠K♠A♠

10♣J♣Q♣K♣A♣    #unibetOpen       10♦J♦Q♦K♦A♦

Flopping a Royal Flush is 1 of the rarest things to happen in any type of poker game. The odds of doing so is roughly 649,740/1 so when this happens to you. How would you go about extracting value?. This has never happened to me but I will give as much of a detailed answer that I can.

 you flop a Royal Flush close to the bubble at the Unibet Open Glasgow. What would you do?

1st of all you have to be able to control your emotion at the table certainly when playing in such a high buy in tournament there is a very high chance that you're going to be playing against professionals that know alot about body language. Depending on how the action has went pre flop will depend on how you would play it post flop so the only way to explain it is by explaining diffent scenarios.

Scenario 1 : We have A♦K♦on the button . With the blinds at 2000/4000 (400) and our stack is 50 big blinds deep (200k). We get a raise from mid position. 100% of the time from the button we should be 3-betting to roughly 20,000. The original raiser decides to peel a flop out of position. The flop comes down 10♦J♦Q♦. We just flopped a royal flush in a 3 bet pot!!!. I would elect to c-bet on this flop as you would any other time in a 3bet pot. What we are hoping for is that our opponent has something in order to continue. for eg Q♠Q♣,J♥J♣,10♥10♣.I think it looks more suspect if we are checking a very wet flop. In the dream spot with the hands in the example the opponent elects to get their chips in drawing dead and we scoop a massive pot putting us in a very comfortable position heading into the payouts.

Scenario 2. We have a short stack only 10 BB. We pick up A♥Q♥a very beautiful hand at the right time. We put our stack in the middle knowing that at this stage of the tournament we are going to be up against either something that we crush or something that is crushing us. It gets to the BB who snap calls and shows K♦K♣... As we get down to our knees and join our hands together gazing up to the sky and asking the poker gods for some help. We hear the annoucement that we are going to the flop. The dealer swiftly puts down the first 3 of 5 community cards on the board. When we hear everyone saying WOW!!, we open our eyes dust off the dirt from our knees to see that we just got a flop of 10♥J♥K♥.. With a fist pump in the air and a minion dance later we survive the bubble  

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#UnibetRoyalFlush #justsaying It’s been 2 hours since i last played a hand. crossing the Card-dead valley, almost falling asleep when finally i see K♥Q♥ on the button.

Everyone folds.

Blinds are 4.000 / 8.000, ante 1.000. I have 200.000 and decide to bet 20.000.

I am only called by the Small Blind, a very good player with a 160.000 chips stack.

The flop reveals A♥J♥10♥.

I just flopped a ROYAL FLUSH!

i do the billy elliot dance in my head jumping all over the place
going crazy but on the outside im as calm as still water i act as if i'm still waiting on my opponent to act an i myself act nonchalant an uninterested an unfazed , when the dealer or someone else at the table reminds me its my turn to act i say sorry my mistake an act surprised its my turn an then just check back still apologizing at tis point lol. an before the turn comes i check in the dark out of turn to cause as much confusion as possible an to also anger or tilt the player to make a steal against me an then if he does make a bet on the turn card i just tank call after a good 3 -4 minutes . an on river if opponent bets i go all in . if he checks i make a small value bet that looks bluffy to try induce a re steal from the small blind . try use whatever tactic i can to get max value from our opponents . in all honesty i probs do what most players will do their an get over excited an too eager to get the chips in fast an overplay it or pass out at the shock of it hahah   A♥K♥Q♥J♥10♥  #UnibetRoyalFlush 

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1. Screen for memory and light a cigarette to clean hands trembling ;)
2. Check on flop,  think long
3. Bet on turn (I show  that my hand become stronger)
4. Bet on river, after raising all-in

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So, on the bubble, blinds at 4000/8000/1000

Hero (BTN): 25bbs i'm holding K♥Q♥

Villain(SB): 20bbs

With a starting pot of of 21,000,  i open about half my normal opening range here about 22%, i bet 20,000 giving the dude 2-1, the pot offers him roughly 2.5-1 so he makes a fairly easy call...  

The flop comes A♥J♥10♥

Then i  "do a little dance, share a little love...get down tonight"

Before i run around the casino naked with my tongue hanging out slapping the massage girls with it as i fly past...i stop to have a little think......hmmmmmmm

First i gotta think about this dudes cold calling range from the SB;

Assuming villain is going to 3bet me a lot of the time with his value hands, i can remove most of these from his range and put him on a de-polarised(condensed) range of about 6.11%

For simplicitys sake i've given him 66-99, T9s-QJs, QTs, KTs, K9s, A8s, A9s.  about 92 combinations. (there are def a few hands either side of this that could be shoo-ed in but i've stuck with these few hands just for this question).

From villains perspective, my perceived range is roughly 22% including 22+,A4s+,K9s+,Q9s+,J9s+,T9s,98s,A9o+,KTo+,QTo+,JTo  thats 294 combos. Yay me.... : )

Most of this villains range consists of weak pairs and gutshots and some weak flushdraws...

His weak pairs hit this flop about 68.2% of the time- KTs,QTs, T9s, KTo, QTo, 66-99. (45 combos)

His middle pairs hit about 13.6% of the time, QJs, QJo. (9 combos).

His top pair hands hit 9.09% of the time A9s, A8s,(6 combos)

His two pair hands like JTs hit the flop 4.55% (3 combos)

Villains Gutshots hit the flop about 45.5% of the time, KTs,K9s,QJs,QTs,KTo,QJo,QTo (30 combos)

He has weak FD's 13.6% of the time with his 66-88 (9 combos)

he also has 3rd nut flushdraw with his 99 (3 combos)

and 4.5% of the time he has no made hand with his K9s (3 combos)

I'm looking at the hand totally from a "Range vs Range" aspect and not " hand vs range" angle, this will help me see the game from villains perspective a lot more imho...

If you cant see the figures, it's 60% vs 40% in favour of my range on this flop...

Now considering how little villain hits this flop his equity is pretty good, his gutshots and pair hands have given him a fighting chance versus my range NOT my hand....

here's a little equity distribution heat map : )

Now looking at my next action, if i bet the size of the pot, villain has to be ahead about 33% of the time for his call to breakeven.

Now in my own tiny mind, in this spot, i dont want him to be breaking even....i want the guy to be winning and making a plus EV call vs my range. I need him to make a mistake (in the here and now vs my actual cards) ; )

His check on the flop was already -EV, if i check back my EV will be 0....if i check again on the turn my EV will again be 0.

If i bet half pot (as a bluff) my bet only needs to work a third of the time for it to be breakeven.

If i instead look at my bet from villains point of view, villain only needs to be ahead 17% of the time if the hero bets about 1/4 pot here...

17%= 4.8-1   therefore 4.8 times villain loses a total of 68,000 in chips 

but the one time he wins he scoops a pot of 114,000

114,000- 68,000=46,000= 5.7bbs(chipEV)

Now i may be a bit of a Maths donk, but i'm thinking if this guy can make a profitable call against me on the flop i could be onto a winner if i make the right choice....

for the villain a few turn cards could theoretically help him out....any Ace, King, Queen, Jack, Ten, 9, 8,7 or 6.......

And as he is a thinking player, if i check back this flop he may assume i am out of line by not cbetting and that i maybe already have him crushed.

If i bet too much i negate a lot of his equity in the pot, so i am thinking after my little exploration that a nice bet of 14,250 could quite easily be called here, as he could view my bet as an attempt to take the pot down relatively cheaply.

Also villain should be expecting a cbet a majority of the time on most A or K high boards...the monotone flop as scarey as it is

only really hits my range a tiny percentage more...

Weak Pairs 33.3%

Gutshots 38.7%

Top Pair 22.7%

Two Pair 12%

Set 4%

Straights 6.67%

Flush 0.89%

The fact is though, there are only a handful of hands that truly have any +EV to them if he calls 66-99, A8s and A9s.....

Soooooo, to cut my long arse story short lol......i'm gonna bet 25% of the pot 14,250 or thereabouts as a continuation bet simply to allow him to make a profitable call versus my range....

If he folds, he folds....whatever, it just means i was getting no more action anyway and i have still won the maximum from him possible, i know he made a mathematical error if he doesnt call....therefore a quarter of a pot bet just PWNED his backside on a monotone flop and i'm a happy bunny either way....

FWIW i dont care about showing off my RoyalFlush, i just muck my cards quietly and move on to the next hand 

But if the guy calls me down to the river......

Partytime