NL25 - Another Boring AA Post...

[pfapfap]

Yeah, I don't like 'em much either, but I'm curious as to my line. Should I reasonably fear 33, 88, or T9? JT I felt was a real possibility, as well as any overpair to the board. Am I too optimistic? Too loose with a big stack? Or is this exactly what I want?

Full Tilt Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.10/$0.25
8 players
Converter

Stack sizes:
Hero: $75.90
UTG+1: $24.30
MP1: $14.60
MP2: $14.65
CO: $5.60
Button: $25.10
SB: $9.75
BB: $80.85

Pre-flop: (8 players) Hero is UTG with A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]
<font color="#cc0000">Hero raises to $0.75</font>, 2 folds, MP2 calls, 4 folds.

Flop: 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 3[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] ($1.85, 2 players)
<font color="#cc0000">Hero bets $1</font>, <font color="#cc0000">MP2 raises to $4.85</font>, Hero calls.

Turn: 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] ($11.55, 2 players)
Hero checks, <font color="#cc0000">MP2 is all-in $9.05</font>, Hero calls.

[AllTheCheese]

$1 preflop. Absolutely no reason to fold anywhere in this hand. Nh, more or less.

[Brimstead]

call on the flop is bad imo. You need to decide there whether you are ahead or not, then either push or fold. There aren't any draws so u r either way ahead or way behind.

Its not a full stack so i wouldn't worry too much about 33 or T9, A9, i think u will see TT-JJ, maybe even 77 here a lot of the time

[speedle]

Raise more preflop and push this flop.

[AlexB182]

I 3bet flop and push turn if necessary...

[AllTheCheese]

Nobody thinks Villain is fos here? If he's felting to a three-bet shove, I can't imagine that he's folding on any turn card short of an Ace or a King and if he is fos, he would feel those were good cards to bluff on.

[Chargers In 07]

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call on the flop is bad imo. You need to decide there whether you are ahead or not, then either push or fold. There aren't any draws so u r either way ahead or way behind.

[/ QUOTE ]Which is exactly why you don't 3 bet the flop. Stacks are going to be &lt; 1 psb when you call. The only thing a push does is encourage a 55 type hand to fold or a bluff to stop bluffing. I like the way OP played it and I would play exactly the same.

[AllTheCheese]

^Agree^

[AlexB182]

Hey chargers, I like your reasoning here and think you made a good point. Though I think the two lines recommended here achieve the same in case villain has a hand like TT or JJ, maybe even QQ, I really think it's a good line to mix up your play with AA in rather non scary spots like this one.

[Chargers In 07]

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Though I think the two lines recommended here achieve the same in case villain has a hand like TT or JJ, maybe even QQ, I really think it's a good line to mix up your play with AA in rather non scary spots like this one.

[/ QUOTE ]This would be the case if we knew that villains hand is likely to be TT/JJ. In this spot we don't and OPs line clearly extracts max value from villains range of hands while 3 betting doesn't.