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[ILOVEPOKER929]

In the spirit of making nonstandard plays vs thinking players. Heres a 10-20 hand I played months ago on Fulltilt. I cant find a hand converter for FullTilt so I'll have to type it out.

I have 88 in the BB. A superfish open limps UTG, HJ folds, and Baronzeus, who I consider a very strong player, raises in the CO, BTN & SB fold and I 3bet in the BB with 88s.

Pretty standard 3bet for as I know Baronzeus's range will be decently wide in this spot and if the Superfish folds preflop I'm happy to get the pot HU with dead money in the pot and if the Superfish calls my 3bet I'm happy getting 2-1 on my money with this hand in this situation.

Anyways, the Superfish calls as expected and Baronzeus caps and we both call.

The flop comes out 9d 8d 4c. Against many players my standard line is to donk/3bet the flop or check/call the flop and donk/3bet the turn. Both lines are designed to get the superfish to commit as many bets as possible drawing thin or dead. This is where the majority of my money will come from in the long run when the fish invariably draws dead one bet at a time, so any line that induces this type of action is probably going to be close to optimal.

However, since Baronzeus is a very strong player I believed he would be able to detect what I was up to if I either bet/3bet or called donked the turn and correctly give less action those times he has a big hand like an overpair.

I decided to take the line that would get Baron to spew the most possible should he have an overpair.

So I check/raised the flop for elimination forcing the superfish to call two cold even though he surely wouldve called one small bet with nothing. The superfish folded and Baron called.

The turn was the 8h giving me quads. I bet and Baron raised. I reraised and baron capped.

The river was a 4s making the final board 9d 8d 4c 8h 4s. I donked, Baron raised again. I 3bet and he called and showed AhAd.

I believe my flop check/raise for elimination caused Baron to give me more money than he should have since he probably put me on a marginal made hand like TT instead of a monster since he would know that trying to force the superfish out when I have a monster is generally a bad play. Once Baron put me on this marginal made hand he made the classic mistake of locking in on a read and waiting too long to change that read. When up against a great hand reader, making the wrong play at the right time can pay lots of dividends.