Dollars and Cents

I wanted to call this post "the greatest bluff ever" but sadly the Smiths or Radiohead have never done a song with that name so......

Anyway, this is from last night's $22PL8b tourney on Stars which I've been having good runs in. Finished 4th last night after a couple of gay beats at the final table - worst was getting the chip leader all-in when I had AA3J on a T62 flop after I re-raised him pre-flop. Clown called with A5Kx and the turn was a 3 to give him a damn half.

Before that was this great bluff. I've tidied up the hand history but we were 7-handed on the FT.

Seat 4: mackem790 (47537 in chips)
Seat 6: Manta_Rays (38087 in chips)

jelijahd: posts small blind 1000
Manta_Rays: posts big blind 2000

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to mackem790 [4h 4c 2h 6c]
4 folds
mackem790: raises 4000 to 6000
jelijahd: folds
Manta_Rays: calls 4000
*** FLOP *** [Qh Jd 5c]
Manta_Rays: checks
mackem790: checks
*** TURN *** [Qh Jd 5c] [5s]
Manta_Rays: checks
mackem790: bets 8000
Manta_Rays: calls 8000
*** RIVER *** [Qh Jd 5c 5s] [Ad]
Manta_Rays: checks
mackem790: bets 20000
Manta_Rays: folds
mackem790 collected 29000 from pot
mackem790: doesn't show hand

Pre-flop it's essentially a steal, although the hand does have some potential to make a scabby low or lucky high hand. Easy check behind on the flop to see if I pick up any draw, and when he checks the turn I have to take another stab.

River is pretty ugly but it's balls in hand time and fire again, thankfully he folded.

While all this was going on I jumped into a big chip lead in the Stud8 +1 tourney on Full Tilt despite running into quads for the third time this series - just as predicted :)

Ran so well early on it was inevitable the cards would dry up and eventually finished 3rd, well done to Vman (2nd) and donkey lucksack motha f**ka (1st)