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John Juanda sucked out on me!
Sunday, September 04 11:16:10 AM 2005
A nice side benefit of playing at Full Tilt is the pros actually play on the tables. They have their own avatars and usually 10 deep waiting lists and legions of railbirds all watching and tossing in snide comments. It's easy to run over these tables because so many of them are trying to play perfect poker to impress the people watching as if that mattered. The pros are usually playing the fishiest simply because they don't care. Phil Ivey plays in games where the small blind is bigger than all the players stacks at the table combined so he just plays 70% of hands and has fun. Juanda usually plays more solid and in my stats is a big winner at all levels (big surprise). Anyways... Here's the hand in question. NL1000. That's the other thing. This is a little out of my bankroll but I was having a good day and following a fish around so I thought, hey, why not.I pick up AJs on the button. I raise it up to 30. Small blind calls. Juanda (BB) calls.Flop comes down JAJ. Sweet. Check check to me. I think it'll look suspicious if I just check through so I bet out 45, half the pot. SB calls. Juanda raises about 100. I'm licking my chops. I decide to flat call. SB drops.Turn is a Q. Juanda bets about 300. I decide to flat call. Here is the mistake. Going all in would at least make me feel better. I decide to just call since no matter what comes, he's putting himself all in on the river.River...the dreaded Q. As I thought Juanda goes all in. At the time I was thinking "no...this can't be happening!". But I really shouldn't have been worried. He was either playing an ace really strongly or was playing a jack, in which case I still win unless he happened to have QJ. But as I dreaded...he flips over AQ. For the runner runner suckout. AAAAAAAHHHH! That's one of the only things I hate about playing at the pro table. How exactly do you call John Juanda a fish?

Source: Vanity and Poker


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