Preflop: Hero is BB with 7 A A 8
MP folds, CO raises to $0.14, BTN folds, SB calls $0.12, Hero raises to $0.56, CO calls $0.42, SB calls $0.42
Flop: ($1.68) 8 2 7 (3 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $1.68, CO calls $1.68, SB raises to $7.47 and is all-in, Hero raises to $8.71 and is all-in, CO folds
Turn: ($18.30) Q (2 players, 2 are all-in) River: ($18.30) 3 (2 players, 2 are all-in)
Spoiler:
Results: $18.30 pot ($0.12 rake)
Final Board: 8 2 7 Q 3
SB showed 8 A 8 6 and won $18.18 ($10.15 net)
Hero showed 7 A A 8 and lost (-$8.03 net)
CO mucked and lost (-$2.24 net)
For sure I think my 3 Bet with the Doublesuited Aces is fine. Important to know that CO is crazy, and 3 Bet and 4 bet how much he can. ( sad to say , not in this specific hand )
I think a C-bet from me OTF is okay , but have I Bet to much here ? should i better bet 1/3 ? and should I fold here against BTN shove ?! ( until this hand he plays very calm ) .
second hand is std. I'd make a note to 4bet almost my entire UTG range until he stops having trash like (K8)84 in his 3bet range.
first hand I bet a lot smaller on the flop because it's not great for you, and it allows you to bluff a lot cheaper if you don't have much (you should have a decent amount of non-pairs in your 3bet range ... esp. if opener is crazy). Folding random AA/KK is annoying, but fine without reads that SB is going insane pretending he has it ... folding top two, no. 88/77 are blocked. Obviously wouldn't be shocked to see 22, but also 82/72 and there are a bunch of draws.
Lol @ folding top 2 here
4bet with trash aces in hand 2 is good, tag SB as ultra-******
Run better next time
Maybe I was just biased because people are 10x more likely to post losing hands but when reading the hand I immediately assumed hero was up against a set most of the time.
I am not a big fan of aces either, but Jnandez has proved AAxx hands are profitable in a vacuum. He says to always 3b them but sometimes I just call. I tend to call more with the AAxx hands that have lower cards in it. That way if ace does flop my hand is more deceptive and if i don't flop huge I can get away from the hand. I don't always do that but at times I do especially when stacks are deep and I don't want to turn my hand face up. But I think in both of these spots you played it correctly.
I am not a big fan of aces either, but Jnandez has proved AAxx hands are profitable in a vacuum. He says to always 3b them but sometimes I just call. I tend to call more with the AAxx hands that have lower cards in it. That way if ace does flop my hand is more deceptive and if i don't flop huge I can get away from the hand. I don't always do that but at times I do especially when stacks are deep and I don't want to turn my hand face up. But I think in both of these spots you played it correctly.
I've done really well with 3-betting aces as long as other players aren't too call happy. I make sure that I'm 3-betting other hands, though, because if my aces are face up then I may as well have less preflop equity than my opponents. When I'm getting too much action, I've decided to slow down a bit with the weaker ones.
I think playing aces profitably is highly situational at lower stakes, with pots going multiway very often and people cold calling 3b a bunch. Its so funny that most cant even figure out that the SPR going to the flop will be ultra low and that they dont have remotely the implied odds to draw out. They are high variance though.
i know its normal to loose, with aces xx, i think this thread gaves the impression that i only want to complaines, thats not right.
sorry for that.
crazy times when one missing emoji is ****ing up the whole meaning of a post.
if there were more girls on this forum I would be forced to post some smileys now