Just the same, when trying to set up a bluff of your own, you need to figure out how far you're willing to go to try to convince your opponent that you have the nuts, factoring in the chances he'll fold based on the range of hands that you've put him on. Your instincts play a part in this process, but in today's hand between top pros Daniel Negreanu and Barry Greenstein, deductive logic prevailed.
At the $25,000 World Tour Championship at Las Vegas' Bellagio in 2009, with blinds at $100-$200 plus a $25 ante, Negreanu open-raised to $475 from early-middle position with pocket 7s. Greenstein re-raised to $2,000.
"I think he has a big hand because he wasn't doing a lot of that," said Negreanu, who has won on the WPT circuit and at the World Series of online Poker betting , "but I like that because I have the perfect hand against him. Plus, we're really, really deep -- about 1,000 big blinds."
Negreanu called, and the flop came 9-4-3, two hearts.
Negreanu checked. Greenstein, a legendary cash-game player who also has won WPT and WSOP events, bet $3,000.
Monday, August 17, 2009
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