32K pot against Bld with 8 high? toughest decision I've ever had!

[samoleus]

if I believed KK or QQ were good, the ace on the river would not have changed my mind. Bld is not the type to pussyfoot with his bet sizes regardless of the strength of his holding.

[duh]

[samoleus]

I will play AA the same way about 60% of the time, folding the other 40% to his turn bet. If the flop was two-toned (ie more likely he had some kind of draw), I play it that way 90% of the time.

[samoleus]

There was no possible straight until the river.

[samoleus]

exactly - I think he has AA or JJ 0% of the time here.

[kotkis]

samoleus,

My guess is that you are using threaded mode to read posts. May I suggest you try flat mode for a while and see if you like that better?

[MDMA]

Given that flop texture is somewhat dry (e.g not two-toned), how often is bld following up with a second barrel but shutting down on river (on most cards), this will greatly effect whether calling turn with AA is a good call. If he will very often fire a 3-rd barrel, are you you comfortable calling with AA 60% of the time on turn given that you're prone to be calling another ~4k on river? Since his range will almost never be another overpair/something he would valuebet river with that is worse than AA, AA isn't much stronger than any other bluffcatcher in this spot, right? I'm of course with you that had the board been two-tone it's a whole 'nother ballgame alltogether.

Problem is of course if that we fold a hand as strong as AA here too often, his turnbet would become too much +ev with any two, which I'm guessing is why you would fold sometime and call sometime. If you do call, and if he's very often firing a 3rd bullet here, I'm guessing you're calling river as well a lot of those times (on most cards).

I could be wrong here, that's why I'm asking. :O

[Thundercat_]

since you took so long my guess is that when you push bld will get that 'feeling' you dont have it and it would be all over, better take the conservative route

[makalish]

Alright samoleus, you've had your fun. Now please tell us how the hand went down.

[edge]

I'm guessing he folded.