Another Dang brother shines on the MarketPulse Biggest Pots roster today, and PL.com's strategy expert breaks down the pot in question.

(Hand history and stats from PL.com MarketPulse Biggest Pots section.)

Players: Di "Urindanger" Dang and present

Game: $300/$600 No-Limit Hold'em, Heads-up, Full Tilt Poker

Stack Sizes: Urindanger $58,500; present $70,498

The Setup

present raises off the button/small blind to $1,800. Urindanger, in the big blind and out of position, three-bets to $6,600. present smooth-calls the three-bet and they take a flop of K♣ 7♣ 4♦.

Urindanger continuation bets $9,800 and present shoves all-in for $63,898. Urindanger calls off his last $42,100 and flips up K♠ 7♠ for the flopped two pair.

present shows K♥ T♠ and will have to improve. The board bricks out 4♥, 8♣ and the $116,999 pot gets shipped in Urindanger's direction.

The Breakdown

present jacks up the button 3xBB with his good two broadway cards. As I always say, practically any two cards are good for a raise on the button in a heads-up game. Two face cards more than meet that qualification.

Urindanger knows that everyone raises the button, and thus he reraises with his suited king. This raise is a re-steal as opposed to a value reraise. Obviously K♠ 7♠ does not play all that well out of position, so ideally he would like to take this down before the flop.

I believe the overly large raise is a metaplay. On the first level it looks like by betting overly large you want your opponent to fold; on the second level it's usually a bluff so you would do it for value; on the third level Urindanger knows that the overbet will be seen as a value play and thus given respect - his opponent is more likely to fold. However, present makes the call.

The flop of K♣ 7♣ 4♦ is a great flop for Urindanger. He flops top two pair and bets $9,800 for value. present, who has flopped top pair with a decent kicker, also has a strong hand heads-up. He takes his time and tanks for a while before electing to shove all-in.

The shove is not terrible, but it's also not stellar. He may have believed that by shoving he could disguise his hand as a draw and thus get paid off by a worse hand, but for the most part he is never going to get a better hand to fold and he will only rarely get a worse hand to call.

Urindanger makes an easy snap-call with top two pair and luckily for him the board bricks out. Urindanger drags the $116,999 and he and his brother trex313 get back-to-back MarketPulse Strategy Snapshot honors!

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