{"id":1573,"date":"2018-12-27T08:44:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T08:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.coinpoker.com\/tr\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2025-11-13T10:29:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:29:38","slug":"melika-hand-analysis-p8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/tr\/melika-hand-analysis-p8\/","title":{"rendered":"High Stakes Hand Analysis with Pro Player Melika Razavi P8"},"content":{"rendered":"

High stakes regular, magician, pageant queen, and CoinPoker ambassador Melika Razavi loves hitting the cash game tables. To give our community some insight into her pot-winning strategies, Melika will walk you through two great hands step-by-step.<\/b><\/p>\n

Hand #1<\/h2>\n

Metzelos<\/strong> open-raises to 150<\/strong> and I re-raise from the button to 525<\/strong> with \"\"\"\"; he calls.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"High<\/p>\n

\"\"\"\" is a good suited connector to 3bet-bluff pre-flop, especially when sitting around 100 big blinds deep. <\/span><\/p>\n

Choosing some bluffing hands like this makes me represent lower boards as well and not only high-card boards after I re-raise pre-flop. Plus I can flop a lot of draws and continue to put pressure on him all the way. <\/span><\/p>\n

The flop is \"\"\"\"\"\", Metzelos<\/strong> checks and I cbet 350, around 1\/3 size, and he calls. <\/span><\/p>\n

The turn is \"\", he checks again and since I still have equity in the form of a gutshot straight draw I think it\u2019s good to bet again here to make my opponent fold ace high and hopefully some middle pairs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead, he calls again and the river is a \"\". At this point I decided to overbet shove all-in for 1.5x pot<\/strong> here for the following reasons: <\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. I can\u2019t win by checking and my opponent can have some missed draws, meaning he would need to fold to my shove. <\/span><\/li>\n
  2. I would do the same with \"\"\"\", \"\"\"\",\u00a0\"\"\"\", \"\"\"\", and \"\"\"\". <\/span><\/li>\n
  3. It would probably make him fold all hands worse than a pair of kings, and I can potentially make him fold a weak king kicker hand here. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    He did indeed fold, and I collected 4,325<\/strong> from the pot.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Hand #2<\/h2>\n

    VenturaBay<\/strong> raises from the button to 150 and I call from BB with\u00a0\"\"\"\".<\/span><\/p>\n

    \"High<\/p>\n

    The flop is \"\"\"\"\"\". I check and VenturaBay<\/strong>\u00a0bets 1\/3 size 184.87 and I decide to call. <\/span><\/p>\n

    The turn is a \"\". I check and \u00a0VenturaBay<\/strong> bets 2\/3 size 497.37 and I think this is a call but very close to a fold. <\/span><\/p>\n

    Since there\u2019s a double flush draw and a straight draw there are too many combinations in his range that I\u2019m in lead against; draws that I can expect him to bet on the turn with.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Also, I don\u2019t expect him to have the deuce too often since he bet the flop. Most likely he would also fold deuces with any low off suited kicker preflop. <\/span><\/p>\n

    In the end, I decided to call and the river is a \"\". I check and VenturaBay<\/strong> decides to overbet the pot to 2,394.74. <\/span><\/p>\n

    The big bet to me though looks more like either a missed draw or a hand better than two pairs.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    It\u2019s not an easy decision when it costs me 1.5x the pot<\/strong>. I have to be right more often to be able to make the call and the problem here is that if he is a very good player he could do this with an overpair. <\/span><\/p>\n

    The big bet to me though looks more like either a missed draw or a hand better than two pairs. Both flush draws have been missed so I make the call. <\/span><\/p>\n

    VenturaBay<\/strong>\u00a0showed \"\"\"\"\u00a0for a missed spade draw and I collected 6,478.96<\/strong> from the pot.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Check out more hand analyses by poker pro Melika Razavi:<\/strong><\/h3>\n