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Old 08-03-2007, 05:10 PM
KurtSF KurtSF is offline
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Default Live 1/2 Fancy Play with AA

I usually just play ABC with aces, especially preflop raising big every chance I get. I've seen a lot of posts recently where good players will slow down preflop with AA to disguise their hand in order to pick up a ton of value postflop. Recently I was playing and I found a spot to try this out. Here's the hand:

Typical live 1/2 game. I've got about $200 in front of me. I get A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] and raise to $8 UTG.

MP player calls. No real reads on this guy, but he hasn't been raising much and seems quite passive, and only has about $120 in front of him.

Folds to BB who raises to $24. This is a young Asian kid in his early 20s, also with around a $200 stack. He's been playing pretty tight and very aggressively postflop. My guess is he would just call here and try to hit a flop with AQ and probably AK too, so once he makes his raise to $24 I put his range at TT-AA.

Normally I re-pop this to $60-75. But being in position on BB and pretty sure he's got a big pocket pair, I though this was a good spot to slow down and try to get value from him postflop. FPS? I call, MP player calls. My plan is to jam almost any flop (KQT is a disaster).

Flop comes T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]4[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

BB bets $20. I raise to $60. MP calls. BB goes all in for about $110 more. Chips are counted and I cover BB by $5.

I'm not very concerned about MP as he could have any 2 cards. Most likely TPNK or the flush draw, but also possibly 2-pair. So be it if he does.

This is exactly the action I was looking for. But I'm a little surprised how fast BB is playing it. Based on my reads I think I'm splitting with AA, losing to TT, and beating JJ, QQ, KK.

General questions:

* Did I pick a good spot for this play?
* How's my range for BB preflop?
* What's up with the $20 c-bet?
* How does flop action affect the range for BB?
* Is a call on the end correct? I can't fold after the way I played preflop, can I?
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