First - thank you to those who responded. I'm overwhelmed at the hordes of people who read this site daily and who are interested in participating.... (do you think anyone noticed the sarcasm dripping from that sentence? no? ok moving on...)
That hand was from last week's Thursday Wheatie tourney on Pokie Stars. Duggle figured the unknown hand would've probably called the continuation bet if holding a ten in order to extract the max out of the hand. Decent reasoning. But, here's the thing. It was me holding that unknown hand - [ Qd Td ] to be exact, and my opponent with the pocket sixes. I check-raised all-in because I did not like those two hearts on the flop. I did not want to give a flush draw any easy decision.
As it were, my opponent with the sixes went deep into the tank before calling. Once we flipped, he immediately realized his error. He was saying in chat how he'd grossly mis-judged my hand. And then his three-outer came on the river. He was very apologetic about the bad-beat... appreciated now, but at the time I want to do a BadBlood on his head.
However - bad beat aside - I'm not displeased at how I played it. Had the flop not presented a flush draw, I might've lured him in to extract what I could. I wasn't unhappy when he called my all-in either. The fact he took so long to ponder his move, I knew I was way ahead. As soon as he called, I was checking out my seat at the final table - the river did it's thing, I lost the hand and had a crippled stack. I didn't make it to the finish - but my chips did. To second place if I recall correctly.
But I was really curious what his thought process was when he went into the tank before calling. With those sixes. The same hand that bumped me out of the December WPBT tourney. After I'd pushed all-in on the turn. And he thought and thought and thought and thought. Then said, I know I'm way behind. And then called anyway. And spiked his 3 outer on the river.
Played the Tuesday Wheatie tourney tonight. It was 10 minutes going before I realized I needed to log on. Not a way to start a tourney - Phil Helmuth I am not. But, it was really only a few seconds of playing that I knew this was going to be a short night. I was outplayed by the table and outwitted by the poker gods, so it wasn't my night to outlast - I was unceremoniously voted off the island (that last bit was for CJ's benefit).
