2 AA hands from last night--need help on the second one (10-25 NL))

[tdarko]

10-25 NL

Hand 1:

Stacks- Hero: 3225
UTG: 3100
CO: 2600

UTG opens for 75, i raise to 275 UTG+1 with AA, folded to the CO who calls the 275. UTG quickly reaches for chips and reraises to 1000, i push, and the CO folds. this is an obvious AA vs. KK hand.

a little information, the UTG was a loose aggressive player who opened a lot of pots and got involved with a wide range of hands and the CO is a player who was tight aggressive that really didn't get out of line too much, this information is needed for hand #2.

i win the hand.

Hand 2:

Stacks- Hero: ~6600
SB: 4500
UTG+1: 2290

UTG+1 is the CO from Hand 1 and the SB is the player next to me, a friendly guy that keeps telling me that his cards have been dead for a long time and that he is waiting for ANYTHING to play.

this hand is 4 hands after Hand 1.

a couple players limp including UTG+1, MP raises to 75, i raise the pot to 300 with AA, SB calls the 300, UTG+1 raises to 900, MP folds, i push, SB folds. UTG+1 now thinks about this for a very long time and finally says, "i have never folded Kings before but you made that exact same play just a few minutes ago," and folded his Kings face up.

I was completely perplexed as he only had a little less than 1400 behind after the 900 raise. I pushed because the SB was itching to play and I don't know how comfortable i was playing this multi-way on the flop.

Any thoughts on how I could have played this better?

[LyinKing]

what really could you have done save smooth call the 900? seems you won a decent pot as played regardless.

[Maulik]

Utg+1 made a good read, you played your hand straightforwardly and picked up some chips. Converely how many hands are you smooth calling for 900 after potting? This will set of alarm bells for the CO too, he just didn't get 3 cards to outflop you.

So to sum up, I agree w/ Lying.

[captZEEbo]

smoothcalling the 900 is silly IMO. Bad beat that he folded KK preflop. Pushing AA here is good b/c people won't give you credit and will call with a wide range, thinking you're just using the AA shania from last hand.

[creedofhubris]

Nothing's wrong the way you played it, you won a bunch of money at no risk.

In hand #2 you could make it 2K straight (or the ever-popular "I'll put you all-in" vs. UTG+1) and see if SB wants to gamble for ~1/2 of his stack. Then just autopush any flop. It's a really strange way to play it but it's the only one I can come up with besides allin yourself or flat call.

[tdarko]

zeebo,

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thinking you're just using the AA shania from last hand.

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when the villain was taking his time thinking this is basically what was running through my brain, that there was no way he folds KK here since 4 hands ago the exact same scenario played out.

[aejones]

Be glad that they held up. Maybe be glad that you didn't see a flop in the second one..

A-OK to me

[amoeba]

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zeebo,

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thinking you're just using the AA shania from last hand.

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when the villain was taking his time thinking this is basically what was running through my brain, that there was no way he folds KK here since 4 hands ago the exact same scenario played out.

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I agree completely with this. its weird that villain would think the opposite.

[flawless_victory]

he limps, sees two raises behind him and reraises again after limping for the min.. if anyone does anything besides fold their hand, they have AA. period.
be happy he made it 900 and gave all tyhast $$ away instead of jst folding for the 300 like he shoulda done.

[Goodie54]

What games are you playing in that a few limpers, a standard raise and a standard re-raise is always AA? How the hell could UTG-1 fold for the 300?

Peace

Goodie