The craziest poker hand of all time?
The following hand shows you how to make a hero call in a 6-bet pot. Our coach lnternet analyses what happens when players fight fire with fire.
What do you think about the call? Tell us in the comments!
| KidPoker705 ($16,000.00) Sauce1234 ($33,779.50) AAROOKIE ($42,559.00) Alexonmoon ($19,498.00) dermulovich ($47,508.00) Pre Flop: ($120.00) Flop: ($18,288.00) Turn: ($31,588.00) River: ($31,588.00) Showdown: |
This is what our coach 
lnternet thinks about this hand:
"This hand takes the preflop war to extremes. If you think a cold 4-bet would be the maximum, you haven't seen high stakes poker 400BB deep yet."
The preflop war: 3-bet, 4-bet, 5-bet, 6-bet, call!
KidPoker705 steals from the button and Sauce makes a loose 3-bet bluff with 
.
AAROOKIE seems to realise that Sauce tends to 3-bet loose in this spot; instead of waiting for a regular 4-bet bluffing hand with at least one high card, he exploits this situation and cold 4-bets 
.
Sauce is aware of this tendency and assumes that AAROOKIE is bluffing too much so instead of exploiting the loose 4-bet range passively by calling, he decides to play aggressively by 5-betting his hand.
By doing this, he becomes re-exploitable and AAROOKIE is able to re-raise again. With pot odds of 21% - it's only 49 big blinds - Sauce calls. When two players fight fire with fire, the whole table starts to burn.
Sauce1234 calls the flop with air
AAROOKIE continuation bets the flop of 
which both players have missed. Surprisingly, Sauce has got 84% equity on the flop - about the maximum you can have with on this flop.
Sauce certainly has to float from to time by calling hands without a pair or flush draw, but calling this specific hand seems to be way too loose.
A possible justification for calling could be the assumption that AAROOKIE either checks or shoves many flush draws or Ax on the flop, meaning his continuation bet range contains many hands that will give up on the turn.
AAROOKIE has complete air on the 
turn and gives up. Sauce understandably tries to bluff the river 
with 9-high.
Hero call on the river: over two stacks with a weak pair in a 6-bet pot
How can AAROOKIE possibly call the river? You might assume that he thought Sauce would be bluffing too often, since the flush draw did not hit - but it's not that easy.
As you can see at the showdown, many players play mostly suited hands after 4-betting preflop. The only offsuit hands in their ranges are Ax and pocket pairs; putting Sauce on a missed flush draw is virtually impossible.
The only chance for Sauce to bluff a worse hand on the river is by having called the flop without a pair and a spade in his hand - a rather bold assumption by AAROOKIE. But that's exactly what Sauce did, and this bold assumption lets AAROOKIE win a pot worth 846 big blinds.
