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Donk/call flop and donk/call turn. AA will likely raise the flop and/or turn and you can collect extra bets from all the limpers while not showing too much strength.
I feel like donking the flop makes it look like I have to have at least something given that I'm donking into 5-6 players, which could discourage super loose calls from the limpers. Maybe I'm giving the average 4/8 player a little too much credit for taking different things into consideration, but I feel like it's much more comfortable to make a loose call when the pre flop raiser c-bets from the button than to make a loose call when the player first to act donks into 5-6 players. The PFR can be c-betting with AK, AJ, AT, or whatever else that missed, but a donker kind of has to have a queen at the worst, right?
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I don't think your collecting many bets if any from limpers if you donk. Your donk will look a little scary and anybody thinking of calling has to consider the pre flop raisor is yet to act behind them. I don't think your getting loose peels here. I think your check/call is standard. Now maybe someone will call and possibly hit a hand on the turn or river.
That's precisely what I was thinking.
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I think going for the CR on the turn is usually standard. I would go for the CR again on a river blank after whiffing on the turn.
I feel like after the check-check on the turn I absolutely have to bet out on the river. My read could be incorrect, after all, and he could end up having a queen that he's playing pot control with, and won't bet with but will call with. Of course, I'm fairly confident in my read of AA, and when the A hits the river it doesn't matter how I play it since we're obviously going to both blast off.
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This player is obviously extremely Mubsy. My adjustment would be to make sure I am betting my hand against him. If I were to replay this hand, I would CR the flop and go from there.
Wait, you said above that check call on the flop was fairly standard...are you saying I should check raise since my opponent is Mubsy?
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The problem with a lot of people is that they do something different when they get a big hand. What else does OP check-call on this flop? If you check-raise Qx and flush draws and check-call this flop with exactly QQ/66/6x, that's a problem because BTN knows AA is no good after investing 1 SB.
Maybe this is the wrong way of viewing things but I'm almost never check-raising Qx here (there was no flush draw on the flop, I would at least consider check-raising a flush draw, yes). It doesn't matter that much here, since other players don't know how I play, but it feels like a game-theory disaster to check-raise Qx. What am I getting action from that I can beat outside of worse queens? Maybe JJ, TT, 99, 88, and 77 peel, maybe ace highs peel (opponent dependent), and that's about it. Otherwise I'm just getting action from overpairs, sixes, and boats. I guess C/R accomplishes protection against those hands that I have crushed that have a handful of outs against me, but that's the only thing I can really get out of it. I might check-raise AQ or KQ because I can get value from worse queens, but that's kind of it. And in this situation, I wouldn't even do that, because I'm pretty sure my opponent has aces. I'm check-calling Qx.
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You probably missed one or more bets on the river. Never heard of a live poker room where betting is capped in a round that began headsup. I have played in a lot of rooms, and in every one of them you could have made it 5 bets on the river, hoping he would make it 6.
4 bets maximum per street, heads up or not, where I play.