that whole psychology part of the game reminds me of a hand i played in a pretty nice pot. I was playing 2-5 NL holdem deep stacked where everyone had 1k in front of them starting the hand. We were 6 handed and I raised 75 of clubs from middle position a tight player reraises me from the cut off everyone folds to me and I'm thinking this guy has AA KK or QQ so seeing as how im pretty sure i know what he's got and there's now way he knows what I got i elect to call with my 75 and sure enough the flop comes 10s 3c 4h no help just a gut shot but I lead out for 30 bucks into a 80 pot and he instantly raises me to 100. I know now that he does have an overpair and how am i gonna play this so I can win this pot so i call and the turn card brings 5 so i hit a pair i check and he bets 270 i instant called him and river comes J for final board of 10 3 4 5 J i have 75 and i have him on big overpair so if I check i know i lose here and there is 700 in the pot we each have about 700 left in front of us. So I push allin he thinks for a long time and finally says u can beat one pair i have ACEs and im foldin so he folds. If you think about the hand the only thing he can beat is a bluff i'm not gonna just smoothe call big bets the whole way then push river with like A 10 or QQ i possibly could have JJ not likely though so he could only beat a bluff which is not likely but the psychology part is this. I knew that he knew that I knew he had Aces there fore if i push the river i have to have a hand that beats ACES there so he folded. But once again i took it to the next level and he couldnt see it obviously one of my greatest plays ever. Because I knew he was smart enough to think up to that level but not one more step above it and thats psychology friends. lol  |