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Old 11-21-2007, 03:30 AM
coyotej coyotej is offline
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Default Re: my first NL hnad post...

First thought is: you have to know if this player is capable of 3-betting you without a premium hand (QQ-AA). Without a read, and assuming he's not getting extra aggro, your only hope is that he has another AKo/AKs, which means you're pretty much NEVER ahead here. As played, you put 32.5BB in the pot (1/3 of your stack) with a big drawing hand. Since he called your flop-shove, he has to have AA, AK, or 99 (which would be a little surprising, honestly, but not impossible).

I think you have to decide before the flop how you want to play this hand: either shove now (it's rare you won't get called at this level) or a fold-preflop, which honestly may be the best play (again, assuming the raiser is straightforward). Note with the fold, you're only down 12BB here.

Without knowing the tendencies of the players at the table, only so much analysis can be done, but I believe what I've described is reasonably standard for 100NL 6max.
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