Stick With Your Reads

Sticking with your read on a player is pretty important. During a session earlier today I ran into a guy who was running over the table by preying on any perceived weakness. Jumping on weakness is definitely a smart play, but there's only so many times you can represent the nuts and have people believe you.

Here's the hand that tipped me off to this guy's game:

Hand 1: 50NL

Relevant Stacks:
Seat 1 - ALTAIRCREED ($61.40 in chips)
Seat 3 - CHRISCOWAN ($22.85 in chips) -- target
Seat 5 - SIMPLESTYLE ($109 in chips)

Seat #1 is the dealer
NOTILOT - Posts small blind $0.25
CHRISCOWAN - Posts big blind $0.50
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to SIMPLESTYLE [ ]
NIKEFIEND - Folds
SIMPLESTYLE - Raises $2 to $2
MADISUZ - Folds
ALTAIRCREED - Calls $2
NOTILOT - Folds
CHRISCOWAN - Calls $1.50

Flop:
[ ]
CHRISCOWAN - Bets $3
SIMPLESTYLE - Folds
ALTAIRCREED - Raises $6.50 to $6.50
CHRISCOWAN - All-In(Raise) $17.85 to $20.85
ALTAIRCREED - Folds
CHRISCOWAN - returned ($14.35) : not called

Showdown:
CHRISCOWAN - Does not show
CHRISCOWAN Collects $17.80 from main pot


Nice hand, but he probably didn't have a deuce here. Fast forward a few hands.

Hand 2: 50NL

Relevant Stacks:
Seat 1 - ALTAIRCREED ($47.90 in chips)
Seat 2 - NOTILOT ($14.70 in chips)
Seat 3 - CHRISCOWAN ($38.80 in chips)
Seat 4 - NIKEFIEND ($25.30 in chips)
Seat 5 - SIMPLESTYLE ($106.25 in chips)
Seat 6 - MADISUZ ($22.25 in chips)

Seat #1 is the dealer
NOTILOT - Posts small blind $0.25
CHRISCOWAN - Posts big blind $0.50
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to SIMPLESTYLE [ ]
NIKEFIEND - Folds
SIMPLESTYLE - Raises $2 to $2
MADISUZ - Calls $2
ALTAIRCREED - Folds
NOTILOT - Folds
CHRISCOWAN - Calls $1.50

Flop:
[ ]
CHRISCOWAN - Bets $4.50 -- just as before, he bets out at a paired board, trying to rep the case 9
SIMPLESTYLE - Calls $4.50 -- Let's let him bet again on the turn. (We could stack him right here also.)
MADISUZ - Folds

Turn:
[ ] [ ]
CHRISCOWAN - Checks -- weird, he slows down...
SIMPLESTYLE - Bets $9 -- gotta bet the overpair
CHRISCOWAN - Raises $31.50 to $31.50 -- ah, still rep'ing that 9
SIMPLESTYLE - Raises $54 to $63 -- based on the similarity of the two situations, we stick to our read and stick him in.
CHRISCOWAN - All-In $0.80
SIMPLESTYLE - returned ($30.70) : not called

River:
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Showdown:
CHRISCOWAN - Shows [ ] (Two Pair, nines and fours)
SIMPLESTYLE - Shows [ ] (Two Pair, tens and nines)
SIMPLESTYLE Collects $76.35 from main pot