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Old 01-07-2007, 08:07 PM
LandonM LandonM is offline
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Default Re: $5/10 Razz--Three Pair

Beautifully executed Razz bluff, playing your boards rather than your hand (and assuming a decent knowledge of your opponent). Well bowled.

3rd Street- Call was fine. You were trying to keep in that extra customer when you were holding the very best possible starting hand. He wound up folding to the Raise, but he DEFINITELY would have wound up folding to the RR. With the nut starting hand, I want as many people in that pot as possible.

4th, call was fine. Fold would've been OK too if you weren't prepared to tell lies later on, but you were, and did so beautifully. You openly represented exactly what you had (2 lows in the pocket) when you bricked with a paired ace and set up subsequent streets for a bluff should your opponent brick.

5th- A perfect card for you and the plans you have with this hand. It doesn't matter that you bricked too- your opponent doesn't know that since your brick is buried and his second open deuce now leaves you both essentially even with open low pairs, but you with all the tempo and initiative, now to mention what looks like a substantial improvement on 5th with the 3.

6th- Again, played perfectly for your plans. You both caught precisely the same card, leaving you in the same strategic position as 5th. No sense putting in any extra money and trying to take it here down since your opponent will just call- that extra bet is better used on 7th as a bluff...

7th- That extra bet you saved on 6th now goes in on 7th as a perfectly executed bluff, forcing your opponent to fold if he catches any high card or any pair card (more likely than not).

Perfectly, perfectly executed Razz bluff.
A+ on this one.
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