Jake Daniels and Trevor Pope have been battling all week at Poker After Dark and Jake really had Trevor’s number. Two episodes ago Jake Daniels made a huge Check-Raise Bluff against him and now he attempts the same play again! Find out here, if it worked.
Poker Hand of the Week Setup
The current Poker After Dark week is called “Gamblers Delight”, since the line-up consists mainly of action players, who like to bluff a lot and make huge moves such as Jake Daniels, Trevor Pope, James Bord, Dan Shak, Lynne Ji, Albert Destrade and Bryan Ercolano.
They are playing 6-max NL $100/$200 with a mandatory $400 straddle. Jake and Trevor have been playing a lot of pots before and Pope has Daniels covered at the start of our Poker Hand of the Week.
Poker Hand of the Week Action
Preflop:
Trevor Pope raises from the Button with K♦9♣ to $1,000 and Jake Daniels quickly makes it $3,000 to go with 8♠8♣.
Pope calls and everybody else folds. Pot Size: $6,800
Flop:
Heads-Up to a flop of 2♥K♠5♦, which gives Trevor top pair. Jake still has middle pair and being the preflop aggressor on a King-high board a continuation bet is in order.
Jake chooses a small sizing of one third pot and Trevor quickly calls. Pot Size: $11,400
Turn:
The 6♥ on the turn doesn’t change much and Jake still seems to believe that he has the best hand firing a second barrel of $4,300 into $11,400.
Trevor almost insta-calls again. Pot Size: $20,000
River:
10♣ on the river isn’t changing the board and now Daniels checks over to Pope, who decides to make a value bet of half pot.
Jake had check-raise bluffed Trevor in a huge pot two episodes before, so he goes for it again with a large 3.9x raise to $38,800!
Jake Daniels gets the best of Trevor Pope again with another massive check-raise bluff and collects a huge $69,000 pot.
Poker Hand of the Week Analysis
Let’s analyse, why Jake Daniels went for another huge check-raise bluff against Trevor Pope, step by step.
Trevor’s preflop raise from the button with K9o is pretty standard at a 6-max table and so is Jake’s 3-bet from the small blind with Pocket Eights.
Same goes for the continuation bet on the King-high flop as it heavily favours the 3-bettor’s range, while Pope has an easy call with top pair.
On the turn Daniels instantly fires a second barrel indicating that he thinks he still has the best hand, but Trevor’s quick call make the alarm bells go off.
Consequently, Jake checks the river, but not with the intention of giving up, but to attempt another massive check-raise bluff by raising Pope’s half pot bet 3.9x.
Poker Hand of the Week Conclusion
And this is where the metagame comes into play. Jake showed Trevor his huge check-raise bluff two episodes ago and correctly assumes that he thinks he won’t do that again.
That’s exactly the reason, why Daniels goes for it and the play works again as it is rather unlikely that he is making the same huge move in the same spot.
Jake Daniels is a master of levelling and successfully levels Trevor into believing that he must have a big hand here.
Amazing and very gutsy play, which requires big balls by Jake Daniels once again.
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