Informative Post: How to lose with AA heads up 500NL

[D_Lonnigan]

9 players, live, $5/5 NL500

Hero is the BTN and deal A [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]A [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

UTG: fold
UTG+1: fold
MP1:fold
MP2:fold
MP3: fold
CO ($680) Villain
BTN ($850) Hero
SB: fold
BB: fold

6 folds, CO raises to $25, BTN re-raises to $50, 2 folds

FLOP: ($80) Q [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]9 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]7 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]
CO checks, BTN bets $75, CO raises to $150, BTN goes all-in for $725, CO calls

TURN: ($1354) 4 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

RIVER: ($1354) j [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]

CO shows Q [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]9 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] and wins $1354
BTN shows A [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]A [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] and jumps out of casino window because he didn't raise more pre-flop and did not slow down after being check-raised.

Please feel free to blast me on this play. Thank you.

[kcheel]

Yeah, that was pretty bad. I can't say much though as I had a AA hand my first and only time playing live in Aruba last summer where I played it almost as badly as you. Mine bad play only cost me $400 though.

[F1shRapeMe]

good work you pllayed it about as bad as possible and lost congrats what were you expecting

[Albert Moulton]

What he actually had is less important thant what he could have had as a range of hands.

I suspect that HU in a game with 136 big blind effective stack vs CO that CO's range to raise on the button, call the min-raise, and then check/raise the flop might be as wide as {QQ+,99,77,AQs,KQs,Q9s,JTs,97s,AQo,Q9o}.

You gave no reads, so his range might very well be like this, or even wider if he is just bluffing with TT or even AK sometimes.

Vs {QQ+,99,77,AQs,KQs,Q9s,JTs,97s,AQo,Q9o} you have 49.533% equity.

Yes, you should have raised more preflop. But he probably would have called a raise to $75, and nothing would have changed much.

I think making a cb was good. And I think once he c/r'ed with only $455 remaining in his stack and $305 in the pot, I don't think you can call the c/r then fold later. And I don't think you can fold. And there isn't any room to raise/fold. So, you're just stuck in a bad spot in a high-variance HU game and failed to pair your Ace or 7 on the river.

The only thing you could have done to save yourself was reraise so much preflop that he'd fold. But then if you do that you lose a ton of value when you take this line and he calls you with KQs, AQ, KK (slowplaying), or even JTs (gamboool!).

Edit: Oh, and avoid posting the results. You probably should have stopped when your cb got c/r'ed. I bet you would have got advice to push along with all the advice to raise more preflop.

[GrandMelon]

get the sand out of your vagina and make a real reraise preflop