I have been running incredibly well lately. Why? I have been representing and selling hands that I don’t have and betting accordingly.
Here is an example. I get dealt pocket queens on the button. My chip stack is $1000 deep.
I bet out $50 pre-flop and get one caller.
I am heads up with a tired player that is also sitting on about $1000.
I have not done well with pocket queens lately, but on this day, it felt like my ladies would hold up.
The flop is 9d-6d-2s.
My opponent bets out $75. I make it $175 to go.
He calls.
While I am worried about him being on a diamond draw, I am trying to represent a diamond draw myself.
Turn card is 3s.
He checks. I bet $300.
He reluctantly calls.
The river card is Jc.
My opponent checks.
I push the rest of my chips into the pot as if I missed my draw.
After two or three minutes of thinking about it, my opponent calls of the rest of his chips.
I show the Q-Q and he mucks.
He clearly put me on a flush draw.
My read is he had a hand like A-K or A-9 and felt that ace high or the pair of nines were good.
That said, Q-Q is officially off my ban list.
