Pretty deep hand early on from WSOP

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A tight unimaginative player raises UTG and cbets two players on 954,r flop. What does he have? I would say 99-AA, 44-55 and maybe 77-88 and AK/AQ.

So what do we accomplish by checkraising the flop with an OESD? If you 4-bet allin, you are a 2-1 or 3-1 dog if called. The minireraise is almost always QQ-AA or a set. A set isn't folding and a big pair is probably calliing too often.

The bluff on the river scare card isn't believrable and usually doesn't work. If you go allin, it works more often, but it isn't worth the price. The push has to work close to 65% of the time to be profitable.

This hand was played pretty badly by both players. It also illustrates two styles of mediocre play. UTG appears to be a typical readable ABC nit. BB appears to be a typical overaggressive Internet player who automatically makes aggressive plays without looking what he is doing to the pot size, how he will follow up and without making good reads as to what his opponent has or what his opponent thinks OP has.