Shcherba Shows the Five-bet Preflop Bluff
Level 3
: Blinds 200/400, 400 ante
Vitalii Shcherba raised from the hijack and Markus Michel called on the button. Rostyslav Sabishchenko squeezed to 4,500 from the small blind before Julian Hirt cold four-bet to 9,000 out of the big blind.
Shcherba did some inventory of his stack, which came to about 50,000, before five-betting to 14,000.
Michel and Sabishchenko instantly folded, but Hirt went into a short tank. In the end, Hirt folded, and Shcherba flipped over A♣J♥ for a bluff.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
65,000
65,000
|
65,000 |
|
53,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
53,000
53,000
|
53,000 |
|
22,000
4,000
|
4,000 |