High level thinking

I sometimes like to railbird the good highstakes player to see how they play. Fulltilt just opened a new 40/80 deep stack table and has been very popular, the other day it had a great line up of known players playing in it. Durrr, Krantz, Taylor Caby, John Juanda, Gabe Kaplan, Jman (OMGClayAiken), and Trex (One of Urindanger bros) where playing at the same table so I decided to watch them. After that it ended with Krantz vs Taylor Caby of Card runners heads up both with over 35k effective stacks and this hand happend Taylor Caby (Tay) had TT:

Full Tilt Poker, $40/$80 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 2 Players

BB pr1nnyraid : $45,584
SB Tay : $35,064.50

Pre-Flop:
SB raises to $240, BB raises to $720, SB calls $480
Flop: ($1,440) A T 7 (2 Players)
BB bets $800, SB calls $800
Turn: ($3,040) 8 (2 Players)
BB checks, SB bets $2,675, BB raises to $10,960, SB calls $8,285
River: ($24,960) K (2 Players)
BB bets $33,104 and is All-In, SB says "this is a big bet", SB says "i wish i had more tim ehere", SB folds

They havent played with eachother a lot lately so it is a sick spot for tay with a set here and that board. Krantz's line here is superstrong and that river card completed the straight of a lot of semibluff's if he didnt flpped the flush. Once he calls the checkraise Krantz know Tay has a very strong hand that could call a riverbet, but also knows he doesnt have a flush here never so he decided to bluff the river putting maximum pressure to Caby pushing allin and it worked, he indeed folded. Krantz had 99 for a semibluff on the turn.

Thats DEEPSTACK POKER!!

Later the next day I stumble of a great match heads up in the same deep table. It was CTS vs Durrrr, two of the best nlholdem and headsup player online; with 26k effective stacks. They are playing 3 tables together, two heads up and one 6handed. In Heads up CTS is winning by a small margin when this hand occur.

Full Tilt Poker, $40/$80 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 2 Players

BB Durrrr: $26,179
SB MUCKEMSAYUHH: $28,749

Pre-Flop:
SB raises to $240, BB raises to $800, SB calls $560
Flop: ($1,600) 8 4 3 (2 Players)
BB bets $1,070, SB calls $1,070
Turn: ($3,740) 4 (2 Players)
BB bets $2,420, SB calls $2,420
River: ($8,580) 8 (2 Players)
BB bets $5,870, SB raises to $24,459 and is All-In, BB calls $16,019 and is All-In
Results: $52,358 Pot ($0.50 Rake)
BB mucked and LOST (-$26,179 NET)
SB showed 8 9 (a full house, Eights full of Fours)

Pretty standard, but then it got very interesting. The following chat occur between the players:

durrrr: gg

MUCKEMSAYUHH: reverse automuck tell heh sick riv

MUCKEMSAYUHH: gg

durrrr: wt u mean?

MUCKEMSAYUHH: o dnu if ur payin attention to other tables

durrrr: i didnt c u do automuck mailto:!@#

durrrr: ffs

durrrr: gd

durrrr: that makes it super easy fld

durrrr: wow lifetilt

MUCKEMSAYUHH: i turned automuck off real quick

MUCKEMSAYUHH: so everyone always calls

MUCKEMSAYUHH: thinkin im bluffin

durrrr: yaya but i kno yer not retarded

durrrr: so i wish i noticed

MUCKEMSAYUHH: heh

durrrr: bleh nh gg

So in other words CTS turned off the automuck on fulltilt so that durrr in other tables noticed that he did to maybe show a bluff, when the cards go down slowly whenever you win a pot. So he is expecting durrr to notice this and therefor put him on a bluff and call in the other table when CTS had the nuts. Durrr on the other hand is claiming that if he indeed saw him do that, he could have seen that he did it on purpose and would have seen through the reverse tell and therefore fold the second best hand.

I hope I can someday play at that level.

Yesterday I played live again and lost a $120 buy in tourny out of the money but manage to win $375 later on the cash table so I ended up in a possitive note.