POTD #83 Bluffing with a Full House?

Adrian Mateos makes his Punt of the Day Debut

I’ll be honest with you guys. It’s 10:10 PM EST, and I just finished watching day 1 of the WSOP Main Event Final Table. The action was fast and furious, and there were very few punts (though I will be writing about the two big hands Kenny Hallaert played vs. Michael Mizrachi). Normally I try to have an introduction that is thematically relevant to the hand I’m writing about, but I am tired and I need to get this post up for Wednesday morning, and I do not have an anecdote about Prague¹ or a story about “Zeebo Theorem”² or a general poker lesson about this hand. It’s a complex hand versus a tough opponent, where none of my decisions lost EV, but I did not play my sharpest. When you find an odd flop play, you need to be prepared to play all 47 turns, and in this hand I was not.

2022 50k EPT High Roller in Prague
Level 9 3k/6k/6k start of Day 2. I late registered with 250k and posted the blinds and played an orbit.

Adrian Mateos (250k) raises to 13k in the LJ, I (235k) call with 9h5h in the BB

Flop (35k) A♥️K♦️9♠️: I check, he bets 9k, I make it 33k, he calls

Turn (101k) A♦️: I check, he checks

River (101k) A♠️: I check, he checks and lose to I forget what… let’s say QQ.