Still £4k down for Feb, but this pot helped.

The moral of the story here is to avoid situations in which your range is very narrow and you still have 8-9 times the pot left to bet from out of position. Here I'm sure that his range on the flop is entirely overpairs, and he did have QQ . He gets almost 4:1 pot odds on the turn, which must make folding any overpair tough, and folding an overpair with a spade almost unthinkable. Probably helps to have a bit of a history of stabbing 1/3p bluffs in big pots.

The ace on the river is disastrous a small amount of the time, because obviously he can have AA as easily as the other overpairs, but since it's the ace of the spades it ensures that KxKs calls as well as probably QxQs and JxJs, so its usually a great card.

Against some players I think its better to bet bigger on the turn, because they won't fold many overpairs and certainly won't fold one with a flush draw, but in this case I felt like he was playing a bit more carefully and might get away from JJ and QQ this deep since he hasn't got any history of seeing me bluff in this situation (or ever have been in it with hiim before, for that matter.), I thought a spade river, or at least a lot of fake fold equity on the turn, might be needed to get the lot in, so the turn bet is small enough to make sure he sees the river if it does turn out to complete his draw.

$3/$6 No Limit Holdem.
3 players
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