Did I Play My Flush Correctly? : Poker Stories

TEXAS_HOLDEM, NO_LIMIT, T4-52099842-7
played at "Macao" for USD TC from 2007-10-19 01:12 until 2007-10-19 01:13
Seat 1: Player 1 ($1,450 in chips)
Seat 2: Player 2 ($1,370 in chips)
Seat 6: Rimvis ($1,825 in chips)
Seat 7: Player 4 ($1,395 in chips)
Seat 9: Player 5 ($1,460 in chips)
ANTES/BLINDS
Rimvis posts blind ($10), Player 4 posts blind ($20).

PRE-FLOP
Player 5 folds, Player 1 folds, Player 2 calls $20, Rimvis calls $10, Player 4 checks.

FLOP [board cards: 7S,5S,5D ]
Rimvis bets $40, Player 4 calls $40, Player 2 folds.

TURN [board cards: 7S,5S,5D,JH ]
Rimvis bets $40, Player 4 calls $40.

RIVER [board cards: 7S,5S,5D,JH,9S ]
Rimvis bets $300, Player 4 bets $1,295 and is all-in, Rimvis bets $1,425 and is all-in.

SHOWDOWN
Rimvis shows [ AS,TS ]
Player 4 shows [ 7C,7D ]
Rimvis wins $430, Player 4 wins $2,810.
SUMMARY
Dealer: Player 2
Pot: $3,240
Player 1, loses $0
Player 2, loses $20
Rimvis, loses $1,395
Player 4, bets $1,395, collects $2,810, net $1,415
Player 5, loses $0


Did I play this right? Would you play a hand like this differently?

Don't like those small bets . I would go with a bigger bet on flop and fold/check-fold if he raises or calls .

The fact that he just called down should raise some alarms , it was a bad call on river .

badriver4me wrote:Don't like those small bets . I would go with a bigger bet on flop and fold/check-fold if he raises or calls .

The fact that he just called down should raise some alarms , it was a bad call on river .

He never re-raised me so i never thought that he might be holding a full house... He only called my pretty small blinds so I could put him on some high cards preflop or a pretty high pair on the flop. Maybe he was even trying to catch a flush like me. So, when I received my flush on the river, I bet a pretty decent amount. His re-raise signaled me that he's probably received a flush as well. But since I'm holding the Ace, I'm pretty safe... But, I would never put him on a full house.

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:huh: If I see it right he was checking BigBlind , so he could have anything . So with a 5 only he would raised the turn on a drawheavy board , he was slowplaying .

badriver4me wrote::huh: If I see it right he was checking BigBlind , so he could have anything . So with a 5 only he would raised the turn on a drawheavy board , he was slowplaying .

If we look at slowplaying, then a logical solution would be to say that he's got a set... or he had a straight draw after the turn. Anyway, I wouldn't put him on 77 -_-

rimvis wrote:If we look at slowplaying, then a logical solution would be to say that he's got a set... or he had a straight draw after the turn. Anyway, I wouldn't put him on 77 -_-

Very interesting situation indeed ..

I'd say that the correctitude of your call depends on the stakes you were playing (couldn't find this information in your post).
In a low buy-in tourney ($15 or less) with lots of inexperienced players, I'd definitely make the call, putting the villain on two overcards or a slowplayed set. Also, your overbet on the river looked very much like buying the pot, so the all-in reraise could have easily been just a re-steal. However, if we're talking about higher stakes, I would definitely put him on either 57, 55 or 77 and fold the river. Those calls were pretty smelly anything else than FH would've reraised you or folded the flop.

EDIT: As well, note that I'd never put the opponent on a set if I know that he's not a complete donkey - no sane person would cold call those small raises having a flush draw on the board.

janark wrote:Very interesting situation indeed ..

I'd say that the correctitude of your call depends on the stakes you were playing (couldn't find this information in your post).
In a low buy-in tourney ($15 or less) with lots of inexperienced players, I'd definitely make the call, putting the villain on two overcards or a slowplayed set. Also, your overbet on the river looked very much like buying the pot, so the all-in reraise could have easily been just a re-steal. However, if we're talking about higher stakes, I would definitely put him on either 57, 55 or 77 and fold the river. Those calls were pretty smelly anything else than FH would've reraised you or folded the flop.

EDIT: As well, note that I'd never put the opponent on a set if I know that he's not a complete donkey - no sane person would cold call those small raises having a flush draw on the board.

It was a 10$ SNG turbo with too many fish around who make stupid calls and etc. The overbet on the river was intentional. I wanted him to believe that I'm just pretending to have the flush.