Easy money on the river?
We're back with another series of high stakes hand reviews. Today we need to take a stand at NL5k after missing our draw but hitting top-pair.
After a short hiatus we're once again picking things up at the high stakes, this time starting off with a NL5k battle between jinmay and today's Hero Bit2Easy.
When it comes to the other players at our table, Dangerblood is certainly worth mentioning. Although he doesn't have a full stack, he's definitely a regular and most likely wanted to profit from the tiny edge he would gain here with a smaller stack. Still, he's not among the most established players at this limit and it's also possible he was simply taking a shot at this table.
Straight through the highest limits
We've seen MMAsherdog in a couple of previous hands and he serves as a good example for the variance you can encounter when active at various limits. He's playing anything from NL500 Zoom up to NL40k as soon as there's some action. In 2016, he was able to win at least $500,000 that way. A year later however, despite still having a total winrate of 4BB on 500k hands and gaining 170 stacks, he only made roughly $20,000 by catching a bad run at the upper limits, burning through his winnings from the lower ones.
Regarding our Hero Bit2Easy it's worth mentioning that he's also just a human being and has been caught flaming his opponents on tilt in the past. He did apologise for that though afterwards and usually conducts himself in a manner you would expect from a very strong regular beating NL500 Zoom and higher games.
jinmay is part of the reg circle as well and generally regarded as a strong and uncomfortable opponent due to his rather uncommon and tricky playing style.
Less talk, more action!
As usual, there's not much to say about the preflop action. 
should be part of the calling as well as the 3-bet range. What's more interesting this time is that four players will be involved at least on the flop.
The flush draw offers the perfect opportunity to check/raise. As mentioned in one of our previous hands, it's always an advantage to have a check/raising range in all sorts of possible spots, which in this case means even when 4-handed on the flop.
Besides forcing your opponents to play bet/fold once in a while, a check/raising range also makes sure the players behind won't be able to bet as many hands as usual, making it easier to play against their ranges. In that context, it doesn't really matter whether it's checked through to the turn or if someone decides to bet after all.
No diamond? No problem!
We still only have a flush draw on the turn but shouldn't forget that we chose to check/raise on a 4-handed flop, demonstrating a lot of strength and usually indicating a monster.
With such a strong range, it definitely makes sense to follow up with quite a big bet, in this particular case even a small overbet. The opponent is now forced to throw away a lot of hands that would still beat us.
If he however opts to call, you have to take into account that he could in fact be on a very strong range here.
The last street offers some options
With roughly a pot size bet left, our stack is the perfect size for a reasonable all-in push. After showing that much strength before, an all-in is very well suited in order to balance our monsters.
Of course, we could also play check/call now to give our opponent the chance to bluff with unimproved draws. We've at least hit top-pair after all.
The last option is a check/fold, taking into account that the opponent's call on the turn was already so strong that we can't reasonably assume he's weaker than us or that we will be able to still bluff him out of the pot now.
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