1/2 at the Taj. I've had a rough first couple of hours and just recently started grinding back and booking a small profit (bought in for 140). Got my aces cracked the other night in a huge pot so I'm a little weary of them at this point. Also never really posted a hand history before so hopefully this is understandable...

UTG +1 just recently sat down maybe 5 hands ago and has played 4 of those hands but showing down good hands, running well right off the bat.

MP villain has been playing a LOT of hands, could have anything but will give up when he doesn't have any hope of winning the hand. Will chase a draw.

Hero is in SB with A A with around 190. Both villains have me covered.

Pot gets limped around I make it 10 to go. UTG +1, MP, and cutoff call. Pot is 40ish dollars.

Flop comes Q5K

I bet out 25. UTG +1 almost instantly raises to 95. MP calls and cutoff folds.

Hero?

raise more pre

Scared money doesn't win. If your balls have crawled under your skirt then just go watch some chick flick until they drop back down...

Scared money is how fish and donks and rec players play. You need to get passed this or else don't bother playing becuase it will impact your play

So lets think about this. We have a player who has played 80% of his hands and another player who has been playing A LOT OF HANDS and a table that has limped around, action is to you in the sb and you decide to raise $10?????

WTF????

Really? You should be popping it $20 - $25 easy.

Fish come to the casino to play, they have their "lucky hands" and their "favorite hands" or they think just because their JT is soooootttteeeddd that its a good hand or they just don't care and they want to have a fun and see flops

so raise more pre.

as played this is a super easy b/f vs 3 villains.

and next time, FFS, raise more pre.

I'll echo the advice dgi gave. Preflop needs to be raised more (around $20) for the reasons he gave. You'll get more value, an easier time stacking off if possible, and you'll narrow the field. Once a terrible board like that comes out, bet/fold. The decision is made much easier once a villain raises and then another villain calls.

Re-fu**ing-lax sir. I was just saying what I said RE: AA because I have just recently discovered that they're not invincible and I need to treat them as such post-flop with draw happy boards.

No. I want you to really let what I said sear into your fishy little girl scout brain. I want you to let my insults burn inside you and fester into a ball of homicidal rage. Then, the next time you play and your balls start to turtle up and retract into your vagina that you remember my insults and unleash that rage so that you will be fearless and make the correct plays/bets.

GL

ps. I can see your bleeding vagina in the phrase "I recently discovered that AA isn't invincible" which will then subconsciously be responsible for soft playing pre and seeing MUB postflop. If you want to be a winning player it takes a certain amount of aggressiveness. Sure, its easy to be aggressive when you got the nuts, but those will be the MINORITY times. The majority of the time, you will be weaker than you'd like and it is in those situations where the player with the biggest brass balls wins.

And yes, there are times when brains must trump balls, obviously you need both but when most of us begin playing poker we are lacking both.

And truth be told, growing big brass balls is the hardest aspect for most. The felt is full of players who "know" the correct play but when push comes to shove, they don't have the balls to do what they know they need to do...

snap fold. get em next time

raise to 18-20 pre

bet/fold the flop

if you get bluffed by the bare ace of clubs then so what you were probably slightly behind anyway if he had a pair as well

i would probably rather flat pre than just raise to 10 from the SB here. you are almost always getting called by every limper here with a super wide range of hands. this flop is just an easier to see representation of the fact that you will almost never know what to do on the flop given your pf action.

given your play this is an easy fold. villain isn't just raising into you, remember.

what he said. When raising from the SB or BB you should basically always be raising to a big amount.

Dude, this RandalGraves guy is a clown. I know him. Big time losing player. Disregard any advice from him. GL!!

Dgi, I'm pretty sure Randal is trolling/leveling you all of us.

surely this OP is a level?

Just realized it's from 2012. Got a good chuckle from this

LMAO @ this bump. Well played Cullen. Well played.

The bump is sort of like LLSNL's version of the story below.

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/team_p...on-142496.html

Hahahahahahahaha what up H? Now you're gonna read all my posts and finally be able to beat me in a pot?

FWIW I folded here (correctly).

UTG+1 had 55. MP had AcXx

Case ace came on turn and I would've held. Typical #RandalRunnin from 2012. Love looking back at this.

That's what you get for playing at Taj???

Those days are dead and gone.