Nut Straight - $1.25 Double Stack

[KStV]

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As a caveat, I'm not sure what hand would call a raise to 4500 and not a shove.

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I agree-- he was calling any shove on the turn. But I guess one way to interpret his call of my small raise is that he was hoping to check it down after that. Maybe he assigned me a decent likelihood of having AA or the straight and figured it was prudent to try and leave some behind (he would have the average stack if he lost). I'm a tight player and I'm capable of laying down real hands, so he may have picked up on that and discounted AQ, A-x, KQ, etc. Maybe his call of my final push wasn't a fist-pump call, but a grudging call.

Or maybe not. Maybe he was doing a victory dance from the moment the flop hit [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Maybe he was doing a victory dance from the moment the flop hit [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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And who could blame him?

[KStV]

No one could blame him. I'd be doing it, too. I shove sets all day everday. The [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] was an acknowledgment that the immediately preceding analysis may be overthinking.