Interesting Hand I played today

I have been running extremely well so far in July! I have only been able to play 98 sngs so far but have a sick roi of 49.32%. I know this won't continue for the whole month but it is nice to be on the upside of variance.

I played an interesting hand with another online pro today in a $75 45 man sng. The villian is Stinko_Mikko, who some of you may have heard of. Anyways, I wanted to share this hand with you and hopefully you can learn something from it.

So the blinds are at 20/40 and stinko min raises from early position. Another player calls and I have 88 so I call in late position. The button, SB, BB all call also so there are 6 players to the flop.

The flop comes 8,2,6 with two hearts. SB,BB check and stinko bets 264 into a pot of 480. One player folds and it is on me. Here is were it gets interesting. I have top set and alot of players would call and slow play. However, there are still 3 players to act behind me and I don't want to give them good odds to draw. Also, I know that stinko is not betting into 6 players and raising from early position without an overpair here, so I know exactly what his hand is here. So I could raise small but I think raising small here looks so strong with all the players left to act that he will fold hands like 99-JJ pretty easily.

I elected to shove all in for a couple of reasons. First, I want any draws to pay the max because the pot is getting quite large. Second, since I know stinko has an overpair, when I shove he is going to put me on a draw I estimate 90% of the time and a set 10% so I think he is very likely to call an allin but not a smaller raise.

Everyone folded to stinko and he thought for quite some time and called. He showed 99 and the turn and river bricked off and I took down the nice pot. So to beat other professionals you need to use all the information you have and stay one step ahead of them. I included the results for July for me and the hand history text below if you want to check it out.

Seat 1: Don Chich (2,280)
Seat 2: boris36 (940)
Seat 3: PimpinDonks (1,395)
Seat 4: Giftedwon (2,720)
Seat 5: Mazinga09 (1,070)
Seat 6: just ouch (2,285)
Seat 7: gibsonf5 (1,670)
Seat 9: Stinko_Mikko (1,545)
Mazinga09 posts the small blind of 20
just ouch posts the big blind of 40
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PimpinDonks [8d 8c]
gibsonf5 folds
Stinko_Mikko has 15 seconds left to act
Stinko_Mikko raises to 80
Don Chich calls 80
boris36 folds
PimpinDonks calls 80
Giftedwon calls 80
Mazinga09 calls 60
just ouch calls 40
*** FLOP *** [8h 2s 6h]
Mazinga09 checks
just ouch checks
Stinko_Mikko has 15 seconds left to act
Stinko_Mikko has requested TIME
Stinko_Mikko bets 264
Don Chich folds
PimpinDonks has 15 seconds left to act
PimpinDonks raises to 1,315, and is all in
Giftedwon folds
Mazinga09 folds
just ouch folds
Stinko_Mikko has 15 seconds left to act
Stinko_Mikko has requested TIME
Stinko_Mikko calls 1,051
PimpinDonks shows [8d 8c]
Stinko_Mikko shows [9h 9s]
*** TURN *** [8h 2s 6h] [Ah]
*** RIVER *** [8h 2s 6h Ah] [Tc]
PimpinDonks shows three of a kind, Eights
Stinko_Mikko shows a pair of Nines
PimpinDonks wins the pot (3,110) with three of a kind, Eights
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3,110 | Rake 0
Board: [8h 2s 6h Ah Tc]
Seat 1: Don Chich folded on the Flop
Seat 2: boris36 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: PimpinDonks showed [8d 8c] and won (3,110) with three of a kind, Eights
Seat 4: Giftedwon (button) folded on the Flop
Seat 5: Mazinga09 (small blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 6: just ouch (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 7: gibsonf5 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 9: Stinko_Mikko showed [9h 9s] and lost with a pair of Nines

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