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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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