Deepstacks Limit Holdem Maniac

I played in the RiverChasers Deepstacks Limit Holdem event last week. Deepstack limit holdem in an interesting animal. The stacks are so deep, and the limits are so low early, you can play pretty wild without getting into too much trouble. So I decided to play like an absolute and complete maniac early and really shittify my image for later when the blinds matter. Now a bunch of you will say that I am wasting my time, as bloggers in general don't give a rats ass about your table image. Not true, and I have a great hand example below to show what I am talking about. Before lets set the stage a bit. The blinds are 30/60 and I am just running over the table. Raising and rerasising like mad, and stealing blinds like it was my job. In the below sequence of 8 hands, I win five of them without a single showdown. That's pretty tough to do in limit holdem.


Dealer: Blinders wins the pot (150)
Dealer: Hand #6075803847
AlCantHang: for real? i'm blocking off all the
rooms at the hotel across the street
Dealer: BamBamCan wins the pot (650)
Dealer: Hand #6075813290
BamBamCan: we'll see what happens
Dealer: Blinders wins the pot (825)
Dealer: Hand #6075825940
Dealer: GCox25 wins the pot (125)
Tournament Director: The limits are now 60/120
Dealer: Hand #6075832702
Dealer: Blinders wins the pot (150)
Dealer: Hand #6075837042
Dealer: Julkeus wins the pot (120)
Dealer: Hand #6075841922
Dealer: Neilc999 has been disconnected
Dealer: Neilc999 has reconnected
Dealer: pvanharibo has 15 seconds left to act
Dealer: Blinders wins the pot (150)
Dealer: Hand #6075848513
Dealer: Blinders wins the pot (420)


BamBamCam was on my left, and I was open raising his blinds everytime I got a chance. This hand would be no different, except the blinds are a bit more significant at 50/100, and this time he had enough.

Full Tilt Poker Game #6076088881: Riverchasers Online Tour (35814932), Table 7 - 100/200 - Limit Hold'em - 21:51:56 ET - 2008/04/17
Seat 1: Blinders (2,560)
Seat 2: BamBamCan (4,220)
Seat 3: Neilc999 (2,110)
Seat 4: Mike_Maloney (2,715)
Seat 5: Astin (2,365)
Seat 6: Julkeus (3,980)
Seat 7: GCox25 (2,800)
Seat 8: pvanharibo (3,625)
Seat 9: AlCantHang (2,625)
Blinders posts the small blind of 50
BamBamCan posts the big blind of 100
The button is in seat #9
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Blinders [8h Jh]
Neilc999 folds
Mike_Maloney folds
Astin folds
Julkeus folds
GCox25 folds
pvanharibo folds
AlCantHang folds
Blinders raises to 200 (In a battle of the blinds J8s is GOLD)
Dealt to BamBamCam [8d 2s]

BamBamCan calls 100 (82o is a great hand to defend you blind with!)
*** FLOP *** [6s 5s Js]
Blinders bets 100 (Top Pair Baby! I know he is playing back slim. Keep applying pressure)
BamBamCan calls 100 (I missed the flop entirely, but have the draw to the worst possible four flush)
*** TURN *** [6s 5s Js] [Ks]
Blinders bets 200 (I hate that board, might as well represent a flush)
BamBamCan calls 200 (I got the assiest end of the flush, lets smooth call, and hope blinders does not have the flush)
*** RIVER *** [6s 5s Js Ks] [3s]
Blinders checks (Well this hand went south fast. Better limit my losses)
BamBamCan bets 200 (I hate to bet on the river when I can only be called by a hand that beats me, but I am off my game so lets do it anyway just to make sure)
Blinders calls 200 (the pot is decent size, and this is limit. I am going to look this guy up. If I am wrong at least I can see what hand he was playing here)
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BamBamCan shows [8d 2s] a flush, King high
Blinders shows [8h Jh] a flush, King high
Blinders ties for the pot (700) with a flush, King high BOOM!
BamBamCan ties for the pot (700) with a flush, King high

See how donking it up with the levels real small, can encourage people to play back at you slim when the blinds matter? Not sure what BAMBAM was doing here, but it feels like he is way off his game. Very strange hand though. I can't remember ever calling someone down on a flush board where I did not have a flush card, and the other guy did have a flush card, yet we still split. Just when you think you have seen them all, and hand like this plays out.