So Guy Laliberte bluffed me in a big pot and it put me on such tilt that I had to book a flight immediately.

1k-1k PLO. Ivey limps for 1k. I get froggy and raise to 5k on the button with Kc3c4s5s. By the way, I don’t know if froggy is a word, but Viffer has taken to using it and I like it a lot.

SB calls, Guy calls from BB, Ivey calls. Flop 4c6cJc. Check, check, check. I decide to check. Turn is Qc. Check, check, check. I bet 20k. SB folds. Guy wants to fold but has chips in his hand. I really want him to call. He calls. Ivey folds.

River is a 9c. Guy bets 30k into 60k pot. I decide that I can’t let him out for 30k.

In retrospect my line should be min-raise, call a push. Why? He can only legitimately push one hand: 8c10c. If he has this hand, he’s going to bet the turn or check and autocall when I bet. Instead he waited forever and acted like he really wanted to fold. This could have been an acting job for Ivey’s benefit with AcXc but he’s not going to 3-bet push the river with that hand. Plus my line (bet after everyone checks the turn, min-raise river after Guy min bets) really makes it look like I’m f’ing around.

If I’m going to fold to a push, I should raise to 70k (instead of a min-raise to 60k) b/c it makes it less likely that he’ll move on me.

The reason I can raise for value is that I can easily have a straight flush with my line. Plus, he can’t bluff me with a naked ten unless he calls the turn with a ten-high flush (like Tc7c) and then decides to turn that hand from a calling hand to a bluffing hand after I raise the river.

At any rate, I did the worst possible thing– I min-raised and then folded when he pushed. He had an Ac and three diamonds in his hand. In other words, he has a billion and change and just decided it was time to push. We were thinking about things a little differently.

I have a bet with Patrik…. around July 10, we are going to play golf for 100k straight up and tennis for 100k straight up. Beating Patrik in tennis might be my biggest goal in life at this point. Patrik is a first class athlete and I am very average. Right now, he beats me about 6-1 in tennis and I beat him in golf by 18 shots.

Brandon