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Quads on the River and getting paid Huge!

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The hand we are going to take a look at is played in the same session that we made a Royal flush and Straight flush simultaneously, we pick up the action at 18:43

Preflop

We are dealt 8♥ 8♠ on the button with $73.04 in our stack. Hands like this are not worth raising with, as you are simply looking to take as many flops as possible with small pairs in 6Plus games. As the two other players just limp in we check behind and take a flop.

The flop

A♦ 8♦ A♠

A dream flop! We make a full house and our opponents check it over to us. The only hand that beats us at this point is Ax 8x which is unlikely as we block two of the 8’s in play, so our opponents would have to have the case 8 in their hand.

Here is my thinking here, we want to play a big pot, we are only getting action if our opponent does have an Ace in their hand, so we may as well try and get the pot big right away to protect our hand, as we are strong at the moment, but there are no blanks to come.

We start with a bet of $1.50 which looking back at we could have gone a lot larger here, something like $3, as people will never fold an Ace and we are charging the maximum for them catching up and hitting there kicker and making a better full house than us. We get called by a player with a very deep stack like ourselves.

The turn

9♣ Rolls off on the turn, making the board now read A♦ 8♦ A♠ 9♣
This is hopefully a blank for us, as now only Ax 8x and Ax 9x beat us so we are winning against, A 6x, A 7x, A 10x, A Jx, A Qx, A Kx and other possible holdings like K Kx, Q Qx, J Jx, etc.

Time to charge the maximum, with $4.75 in the pot we go ahead and bet $7.50, almost 2x the size of the pot. We could even go larger than this in this spot where you are against a player that you are nearly certain will not fold any Ace in this spot, it allows us to bet large and be able to easily fold to a massive check raise too as this would nearly always be from a hand like A8x or A9x.

This sizing can be helpful for getting maximum value on the turn and possibly checking back river cards in fear of not being able to get 3 streets of value from only three of a kind.

Our opponent calls and we are off to the river.

Quads on the river!

8♣ hits the board on the end for the best card in the deck for two reasons…
With the board now reading A♦ 8♦ A♠ 9♣ 8♣, Firstly we have the second nuts, only beaten by pocket Aces and it’s time to go for some big value, Secondly, our opponent is going to think that they now split with any hand we have with an Ace in, other than A9x. So this is a great spot to try and bet huge to look like we are applying maximum pressure to fold a chop out of the pot.

Overbet Time!

With $19 in the middle and $64.04 it’s time to put in another overbet of around 3.2x the pot and get maximum value from Aces full of eights which is our opponent’s most likely hand at this point.

Lucky us! Our opponent doesn’t think too long, with Aces full being too good of a hand to fold for nearly all players at these stakes, we table the quad eights and take down a huge $144.56 for our hand reading abilities.