wow nice aggression

not the way i woulda played it tbh unless i had a solid read on my opponent

Seems like this guy has completely missed or made some kind of stupid 2 pair hand or random 4?

He like never has a flush there and you're putting him to the ultimate test in any case!

FkCoolers said:

I wish he had a little more behind but I don't mind it. His line really indicates no strength. You'd think if he had a baby flush he'd raise at some point to protect and also get value at the same time. 

Seems like a one pair hand putting out a blocker and he probably has a weakish diamond kicker to go with it. If you think you can get him off 1 pair with close to half his stack already invested.

Also, wug reads on tedSTRETCHED? 

Teddy is a good player.  We have quite a bit of history (lol chat berateaments).

Not sure if I can share reads.  Are we allowed to exchange reads on specific players here?  Seems like that's something people get in trouble for on other sites….am I wrong?

Would like a couple more replies before I post results.

He had a set of sevens.  He called.  I didn't expect him to fold that.

Here's some thoughts I have that might be completely wrong:

On this board, 777 is really no better than, say, pocket aces or pocket kings, or even AQ/KQ…it's a bluffcatcher, right?  Clearly I'm not raising this river with just top pair.

However, my 3-barrelling range here is very polarized (especially blind vs blind) and that means he should be calling with a lot of one pair hands as well.  Does that make sense or not?

Maybe stacks aren't deep enough for that to be a consideration.  I don't know.

But this close to the final table bubble, I thought I could definitely scare him into folding something like A7(x). 

When I think about ICM/tournament life considerations, I rarely if ever think about it from my own perspective (obv leak)…I think of it in terms of scaring other people off of their hands (I tend to blow up deep in tournaments because of this…finished 10th in the Merge 100K a few weeks ago after 3bet shoving 86 sooted lol).  Does he really have a hand that he's going to risk busting here?  Against a bad, weak player who rarely has this good a chance at a big score, I think I have a lot of fold equity here, absurd as it may seem.

I kind of threw dynamics out the window too.  I'd generally been crapping all over him, isoing him with complete garbage for the past hour or so (he was running a 29/9), so I probably should have taken that into account.  People get sick of folding to the same guy over and over again (I know I sure do). 

I just don't like letting go of a pot when I see a BS river bet like this, especially when I think I can exploit a weak passive villain close to the final table bubble.

To be honest, bottom line, all I thought about was how weak that river bet looked.  No real deep thought went into it.  I tanked for a bit (which probably didn't help my cause), and decided it was bullshit and to just shove.  Thought he was bad enough to find a fold.