POTD #46 Monte Carlo Monday Mystery vs Mad Dog

With the benefit of hindsight, which is 20/20, I'd have played this differently vs Mad Dog

A goal of mine with this newsletter has been to avoid repeating opponents in the hands I write about, and I’ve mostly succeeded. I technically have two hands I played against Ren Lin, but one was a three-way pot that we can also call an Ossi Ketola hand. I’ve written about two hands I’ve played vs. Mikita Badziakouski, but that was part of a project where I wrote about multiple hands from the same final table. Eventually, I will need to repeat opponents. My database of hands is not that large, and I’d rather write about the most interesting hands than slavishly adhere to some rules I made up, but for now I’m trying my best.

Subscriber, friend of POTD, and friend of Sam Greenwood, Mike Watson, might be the person I’ve played the most hands of poker against in my life. We’ve both been playing live and online for over a decade, we both play Short Deck and PLO, and we have similar live tournament schedules as we rarely play in the US. Despite being a frequent opponent of mine, we’ve reached POTD #46 without me writing about a single hand I’ve played against him. The reason for this is because I have too many memorable punts to him to narrow it down to just one. My POTD master sheet has one short deck hand vs. him, three live NLHE hands vs. him, and two online NLHE hands vs. him. I found so many hands that I stopped looking for more. I even considered doing a whole week where I just posted hands that I punted vs. him, and after today’s post I will still have enough hands that I could do that. Instead, I’ll continue with another gimmick I created: Monte Carlo Mondays, where I post notable hands from Triton Jeju 2024 that I played worse than the hand where I busted to Vladimir Korzinin at the $150k Final Table..

Triton Monte Carlo Event #3 $40k Mystery Bounty Level 1 (500/1k/1k) (SB/BB/BBA)

HH: Triton Poker App

Mike Watson (288k) makes it 2.5k UTG6, I’m next to act with A♣️J♦️ and 180k and make it 8k, it folds back to him and he calls.

Flop T♣️J♣️K♠️(19k): He checks, I bet 5.5k, he calls

Turn 8♦️ (30k): He checks, I check

River 5♣️ (30k): He checks, I bet 60k, he folds.