Early in 1500 chip mtt with aq in the sb

[larry31]

Hi did i make a mistake here? should i have raised more pre flop? or not cb? What do you think the guy had? I lost 1/3 of my stack with this play.


PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20 (9 handed) internettexasholdem.com

MP3 (t2620)
CO (t1870)
Button (t1740)
Hero (t1380)
BB (t1860)
UTG (t1190)
UTG+1 (t1370)
MP1 (t1280)
MP2 (t1610)

Preflop: Hero is SB with A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">4 folds</font>, MP3 calls t20, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Button calls t20, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t100</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, MP3 calls t80, Button calls t80.

Flop: (t320) 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t320</font>, MP3 folds, <font color="#CC3333">Button raises to t1640</font>, Hero folds.

Final Pot: t2280

[BarryLyndon]

Larry,

Try to raise to 120, you have a better chance of getting heads up. You are OOP here and AQ is a big problem hand OOP w/o reads. IN FACT, I like to limp in spots like these and play small ball on flops, but that's just me...

You could get the same information betting 160 - 180 on the flop rather than potting it. You are up against two players, so check/folding here is not a bad idea either. Because the board has all lows and it's very likely to have missed both players, cont. betting &gt; checking, I feel, but 160-180 is much better.

Barry

[SonofDjugashvili]

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Larry,

Try to raise to 120, you have a better chance of getting heads up. You are OOP here and AQ is a big problem hand OOP w/o reads. IN FACT, I like to limp in spots like these and play small ball on flops, but that's just me...

You could get the same information betting 160 - 180 on the flop rather than potting it. You are up against two players, so check/folding here is not a bad idea either. Because the board has all lows and it's very likely to have missed both players, cont. betting &gt; checking, I feel, but 160-180 is much better.

Barry

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Barry beat me to it, but I was just going to say that early on OOP I would probably just call here, and not commit much to this pot unless I hit the flop. I don't think I'd even bother trying to take this down. You are up against 1 or 2 small/medium pairs and 65 just flopped the nuts. Why bother? There will be better spots.

[larry31]

ok thanks

[wulfpacker21]

120 and w/ 2 players to ur left after the flop dont try and take a pot where one of them has a medium pair and some1 w/ 77 or 66 isnt goin 2 go away