[nazahl]

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Here's my first question, why are we re-raising out of position with AQ offsuit? As played though, you took control of the hand, representing a high pair here. You have to be thinking about playing the flop strong.



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my hand is a favorite over a loose CO opening range, I'd like to take it down preflop or on the flop with a cbet. pretty standard issue stuff here.

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Why on earth are you checking this flop? So often people go for the check-raise in the wrong situations. Just bet out and see what he does. Look at it this way, he may view it as a continuation bet and pay you off. If you get raised, then you can re-assess what you think villian has. As played, you have no information on him at all.


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checkd the flop b/c I don't really know what to do if raised. he coldcalled a 3bet in the bb, so generally he has a range of like 88+, AKs, maybe AQs

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Unless he has pocket deuces, the turn didn't help him. This was a solid bet by you, but now you are in a tough spot because he's value-betting you with a min-raise. Now I don't know how creative villian is, how often he bluffs.. but there's a chance he has JJ if he's a solid player. If he's more loose, he could have AJ, KQ or even TT/99. What you do think he's putting you on?


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well he chkd back the flop so I thought he was most like either pretty weak or very strong. so I bet 1/2 pot trying to induce a call from his weaker range (this is something I like never do so I didnt really know how to respond to the minraise. I guessed since my hand looks like AK a lot of the time, he could be playing 88-TT this way for a free SD, charging me to draw, so folding would be bad.

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At this point, I look at the large river bet and the set becomes less likely. It looks like he's trying to make you fold by betting the pot. You shouldn't have played it this way, because you put yourself in a tough spot for the river to be more difficult to read, but the more I think of it, if this guy isn't a tight-nit player and you notice he likes to "out-play" people, your Queen is probably good. It's either 99, TT, AJ or a set though. But the bet size just doesn't sell a set for me unless he's putting you on AA, KK.



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doesnt make sense for him to be betting 88-TT here if he puts me on AK cause he cant really expect me to call.