AQ in tough spot
 

30/60 canterbury, later night, 3 handed.
button: loose semi-aggressive fish
sb: good LAG
bb: hero (A [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] Q [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] )

PF: button calls, sb completes, bb raises, call, call

flop: T [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 9 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]

sb checks, bb bets, button raies, sb calls, bb calls.

turn: J [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

sb bets, bb raises, button 3bets, sb calls, bb calls.

river: 2 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

checked to button who bets, sb calls, bb folds [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]

hero is dumb and hates money?

Re: AQ in tough spot
 

Meh, I pay off here.

Re: AQ in tough spot
 

why do you raise the turn? go for the overcall, your hand doesnt need much protection and there is not much value on a 3-flush onecard straight board.

riverfold is something i never do but that doesnt make it wrong, idk, paying off even when you know you're beat...

Re: AQ in tough spot
 

I think raising the turn is fine... If SB had the Q with you, then you're freerolling with your nut flush draw, so you have to push this edge... it's unlikely that a worse hand will overcall anyway (might get one from the King of hearts... and a set obviously calls one). But i think the raise on turn is correct, once i get 3bet i would call, and then fold a river that isnt a king (passed up KQ) or a heart obviously.

Re: AQ in tough spot
 

The turn raise is bad. SB called two cold on the flop and then led out this turn...strongly suggestive of a draw that has hit and is now afraid of the turn getting checked through. He could have QT-Q8, but there's a good chance he has hearts. You don't have any reason to try to knock button out of the hand, and you can't expect to get a lot of calls from worse hands if you raise the turn. So overcall the turn and overcall the river unimproved.

Re: AQ in tough spot
 

alright... you got to the river, now call