[Rizen]

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Told you CP misreported it... pot had at least 650k.

Huge pot goes to Erik Friberg; Rizen is the victim. Rizen raises 130K under-the-gun. Friberg calls from the big blind. Flop comes Qc-9s-5s and Friberg checks. Rizen bets 200,000 and Friberg calls. Turn is 4c and, after Friberg checks again, Rizen makes it 300,000. Friberg now moves all-in, for about 3 million. Rizen squeezes his cards again and I see A-A. He dwells, then calls for about 90 per cent of his stack. Friberg shows 4-5d for two pair. River is a blank and the Swede scoops a 4 million pot.

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I really don't like Friberg's line here. How often do you get paid off when you check-raise the turn for eleventy billion dollars, setting aside that he was lucky enough to get paid off in the actual hand?

If Rizen calls with QQQ or 999 we'd all be posting about how stupid the check-raise was since OBVIOUSLY only a better hand is going to call.

If this is the best plan Friberg has for the turn then I doubt his flop call is +EV. Calling a couple large bets from an UTG raiser is only going to pay off in the long run if you have a deeper bag of tricks than this.

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This hand was GROSSLY mis-reported. I raised to 140k pre-flop and he called the extra 100k cold with 45s. Then I bet 175k on the flop, and 400k on the turn before he shoved. After blinds and antes there was over 1.5 million in the pot, and he told me he had 2.2 mill behind (which was my mistake for not making him count). It WAS a bad call IMO, but had the count been accurate I was getting decent odds on a drawing board and would have been left with over 1.2m if I lost, which is a playable stack. I think the call was a mistake and I talked myself into it, but I didn't slowplay at all and the pot was huge.

-Rizen