Into The Tank

These heads-up hands are from my last $2k win on Party. My opponent was definitely one of the best players I’ve had to take on recently.

If he had any notable leak, it was perhaps calling out of position with hands like Q-6 and K-4 – although this first hand wasn’t so bad:

NL Texas Hold'em $99 USD Buy-in
Level:19 Blinds-Antes(1,500/3,000 -300)

Table $8K Gtd (2032849) Table #1 (Real Money)

Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 2/10

Seat 8: LiquidEyes ( 56,822 )
Seat 2: Villain ( 219,178 )

Trny:55200336 Level:19
Blinds-Antes(1,500/3,000 -300)
Villain posts ante [300]
LiquidEyes posts ante [300]

** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to LiquidEyes [ Qh 7h ]

LiquidEyes raises [4,750]
Villain calls [3,250]

** Dealing Flop ** [ Jh, 9c, Th ]
Villain checks
LiquidEyes bets [5,500]
Villain raises [42,000]
LiquidEyes is all-In [44,772]
Villain calls [8,272]

** Dealing Turn ** [ 8c ]
** Dealing River ** [ 8h ]

Villain shows [ 6s, Qs ] a straight, Eight to Queen.
LiquidEyes shows [ Qh, 7h ] a flush, Queen high.

LiquidEyes wins 113,644 chips from the main pot with a flush, Queen high.

In The Tank

This is the one hand where I undeniably got lucky, although I think my play was fair and my reads were right.

I would expect him to 3-bet a lot of aces pre-flop, so after he called my c-bet I felt there were a lot of K-x and Q-x hands in his range which is why I chose to barrel the turn. I had no history of two-barrelling, so I thought there was a good chance he would check-fold the turn.

He thought for quite a long time before calling my turn bet, which (since he is a thinking player) seemed to indicate he intended to call me down on most rivers. As such I decided to shut down unless I got lucky, either by spiking my 4-outer, or by hitting a scare card like a Ten (as I could plausibly have fired again with AJ/AT/KT/KJ on the turn, and might opt to value-bet two-pair if he checked to me).

He used most of his timebank when faced with my bluffy 50k value bet.

NL Texas Hold'em $99 USD Buy-in
Level:19 Blinds-Antes(1,500/3,000 -300)

Table $8K Gtd (2032849) Table #1 (Real Money)

Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 2/10

Seat 8: LiquidEyes ( 128,494 )
Seat 2: Villain ( 147,506 )

Trny:55200336 Level:19
Blinds-Antes(1,500/3,000 -300)
Villain posts ante [300]
LiquidEyes posts ante [300]

** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to LiquidEyes [ 6d Td ]

LiquidEyes raises [4,750]
Villain calls [3,250]

** Dealing Flop ** [ Ad, Qh, Kc ]
Villain checks
LiquidEyes bets [7,500]
Villain calls [7,500]

** Dealing Turn ** [ 2h ]
Villain checks
Your time bank will be activated in 6 secs. If you do not want it to be used, please act now.
LiquidEyes bets [20,000]
Villain calls [20,000]

** Dealing River ** [ Jd ]
Villain checks
Your time bank will be activated in 6 secs. If you do not want it to be used, please act now.
LiquidEyes bets [50,000]
Villain will be using his time bank for this hand.
Villain calls [50,000]

LiquidEyes shows [ 6d, Td ] a straight, Ten to Ace.
Villain doesn't show [ 4c, Kh ] a pair of Kings.

LiquidEyes wins 168,100 chips from the main pot with a straight, Ten to Ace.

Weeee!

Costly Call-Down

In the final hand I went for max value with TPTK. Observed in a vacuum it may appear he was a station here, but bearing in mind the T-6 hand (above) his line seems not unreasonable – though I wonder if tilt was at least a small factor in his quick river call?

NL Texas Hold'em $99 USD Buy-in
Level:19 Blinds-Antes(1,500/3,000 -300)

Table $8K Gtd (2032849) Table #1 (Real Money)

Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 2/10

Seat 8: LiquidEyes ( 196,394 )
Seat 2: Villain ( 79,606 )

Trny:55200336 Level:19
Blinds-Antes(1,500/3,000 -300)
Villain posts ante [300]
LiquidEyes posts ante [300]

** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to LiquidEyes [ Kd Ah ]

LiquidEyes raises [4,750]
Villain calls [3,250]

** Dealing Flop ** [ Jc, 3d, Ad ]
Villain checks
LiquidEyes bets [6,000]
Villain calls [6,000]

** Dealing Turn ** [ 7d ]
Villain checks
LiquidEyes bets [14,000]
Villain calls [14,000]

** Dealing River ** [ 7s ]
Villain checks
LiquidEyes bets [55,000]
Villain is all-In [53,056]

LiquidEyes shows [ Kd, Ah ] two pairs, Aces and Sevens.
Villain shows [ 9c, Js ] two pairs, Jacks and Sevens.

LiquidEyes wins 159,212 chips from the main pot with two pairs, Aces and Sevens.

Congratulations to player LiquidEyes for winning tournament $8K Gtd

Player Villain finished in 2nd place and received $1,428.30 USD
Player LiquidEyes finished in 1st place and received $2,359.80 USD