Does this guy know something I don't???

[Profit Seeker]

Full Tilt Poker Game #7846856361: $3 + $0.30 Tournament (59561074), Table 6 - 30/60 - No Limit Hold'em - 5:42:07 ET - 2008/08/29
Seat 1: Kristen0 (10,785)
Seat 2: hero (5,050)
Seat 3: nishnobb (2,770)
Seat 4: sipimate (6,430)
Seat 5: betteroffnow (3,755)
Seat 6: mike mac14 (2,515)
Seat 7: Flushdraw486 (1,660)
Seat 8: Payed_Killa (2,035)
Seat 9: zorto69 (7,020)
Kristen0 posts the small blind of 30
Hero posts the big blind of 60
The button is in seat #9
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [Ad As]
nishnobb calls 60
sipimate folds
betteroffnow folds
mike mac14 raises to 270
Flushdraw486 folds
Payed_Killa folds
zorto69 folds
Kristen0 folds
Hero calls 210
nishnobb folds
*** FLOP *** [4h 8s 3c]
Hero checks
mike mac14 bets 420
Hero raises to 2,880
mike mac14 calls 1,825, and is all in
Hero shows [Ad As]
mike mac14 shows [Qd Jd]
*** TURN *** [4h 8s 3c] [Jh]
*** RIVER *** [4h 8s 3c Jh] [Js]
:doh::swear

[TheOldhamWhisper]

Does seem that way sometimes!

Looking at the hand, the slow play has backfired as he almost certainly had you on a straight draw at best or possibly Ax and that you'd paired something on the flop. In the first case, he will feel that he is actually winning - in the second case, he is looking at half a dozen cards that will win him the hand.

Should he have played the hand? Well I wouldn't have played it but you will occasionally run into some VERY strange play at the tables!

[mathare]

No pre-flop re-raise?

At that buy-in level you have to expect some strange play I'm afraid

[silax]

i guess that your 85% win ratio with AA coming back at you i think i would have done the all in call preflop although you have it 1v1 which is what you want. no way out and the poker gods don't like you

[Profit Seeker]

Twas just strange cos the guy played properly upto and then after that hand. I'm certain he knew wot was coming on the board and will be reporting him :laugh

[MarcusMel]

Looks to me like he figured you would fold to big bets then felt that they had overbet their hand and with a very little buy in cost at risk went all in. If he doubles up at that stage of the game then he can dominate the table for a while.

Only way you can know is if you follow the player around and see if they are consistant in playing like they have fore-knowledge. Also check his poker ranking.

[John]

Interesting. He pre-flop raised and probably thought, "what the hell I might as well call Hero's shove" and got lucky. I feel if he was willing to stand to lose all his chips after the flop then even if you'd gone all-in pre-flop, it's unlikely he would've folded anyway, after putting forward 270 chips.