Josh!
09-14-2007, 01:02 AM
Don't have the HH with me, but I just dropped an entire buy in and a bit more at NL25 with the following hand:
Folded around to the button (sitting with around $30, just sat down a few hands previous, no reads), who raises the pot. I look down at AK (suits aren't important here, rainbow flop, no flush possibility arriving on the turn or river) and reraise to $2. He calls and the flop comes A K 9. Acting first, I raise to about 3/4 the pot and he calls. I'm thinking he has an Ace of some description, hopefully AQ. Turn's a dead card, I get a bit more serious and bet $7 which with what I've already put in means I've put in almost 30% of my stack. He calls, which has me suspicious, but I've got no reason to not believe I've got the best hand here. River's another brick - no straights, no flushes, nothing scary on the board. I go for another $10 and he re-raises all-in which I obviously have to call and he turns over pocket 9s to take the pot.
It seems like I lose big on pots like these a LOT and it kills my BR because one big hand like that can really damage a day's work. Is it possible to get away from hands like this? Should I have just checked the river? Could I have even folded to a strong bet with the amount already in the pot and the strong likelihood that I had the best hand?
Folded around to the button (sitting with around $30, just sat down a few hands previous, no reads), who raises the pot. I look down at AK (suits aren't important here, rainbow flop, no flush possibility arriving on the turn or river) and reraise to $2. He calls and the flop comes A K 9. Acting first, I raise to about 3/4 the pot and he calls. I'm thinking he has an Ace of some description, hopefully AQ. Turn's a dead card, I get a bit more serious and bet $7 which with what I've already put in means I've put in almost 30% of my stack. He calls, which has me suspicious, but I've got no reason to not believe I've got the best hand here. River's another brick - no straights, no flushes, nothing scary on the board. I go for another $10 and he re-raises all-in which I obviously have to call and he turns over pocket 9s to take the pot.
It seems like I lose big on pots like these a LOT and it kills my BR because one big hand like that can really damage a day's work. Is it possible to get away from hands like this? Should I have just checked the river? Could I have even folded to a strong bet with the amount already in the pot and the strong likelihood that I had the best hand?