Value-Bet Bluff Fools Kinkade
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With about 16,000 chips already in the pot, Kinkade was facing a suspiciously small bet of 4,500 from his opponent on the river of a
board. Kinkade thought things over for a minute. Then he picked up his cards."It's a sick bluff if it's a bluff," he said as he pitched his cards into the dealer.
"Since you called it, one time," said Kinkade's opponent. He opened
for a busted flush draw. He was playing the board."Ahhhhh," groaned a disgusted Kinkade. "So sick. I almost called you with a ten." Kinkade's opponent grinned the grin of the cat that ate the canary.
"It would have been such a sick call," continued Kinkade. "But you bet the exact same amount on the river as you did on the turn and no one ever does that on a bluff. If you had bet 5,300 I would have called."
Casey Kastle added his own two cents. "I knew you were on a bluff," he told Kinkade's opponent. "I wasn't 100% sure but I was about 97% sure. I would have called you in a second with his hand."
Kinkade didn't give any reaction to Kastle's remarks. He seemed too busy wallowing in his own pit of bluffed-out pain.