Hero sb: Good image. Been at the table for 2 hours. Have only show down strong hands and one bluff when checked to on the river otb. Doubled up first hand with QQ vs Asian guy who jammed over my c bet on a 246r flop. Stack: $800

Villain 1 BB: Old man directly to my left. Lifts his hole cards so high that i can see them every hand. He has J9os in this one. Stack: $350

Villain 2 UTG: Drunk early 40s brown guy. Stuck around 8 $200 bullets. He's tilted, talking ****, horrible and wanting to get unstuck. Hes raising every hand preflop to $25. Just rebought for $200.

Villain 3 mp: Loose passive pre and post. Drunk as well but has about $600 after flopping a straight vs AA in a 3 bet pot with 67os.

Villain 4 cutoff: TAG from what I've seen. Stack: $400

Villain 5 button: TAG. Snap folded AQ on a ATJ6. Board vs old mans turn bet. Stack $300.

The hand: V5 straddles button to $6. Hero in sb calls with AQss. V1 calls in BB. V2 raises to $25. Everyone calls and it's on me. Pot is now $130. I look at all that dead money and feel like I'm ahead of villain 2s range and no one else has shown any strength and I go all in. I also don't want to play AQ oop against 5 opponents.

Villain 2 slams his stack in angrily and everyone else folds. I feel like some may flame me for this and others may like it. Thoughts?

I like it.

Can't see playing it any other way.

Variance rich, but I like it. Especially with donk being the one who raised. You might have run into a pocket pair somewhere that might have called, but many are not going to want to play 99- for stacks and you would have a lot of equity anyway.

The kind of play I need to incorporate into my game more often.

Nice hand.

Yeah with my image I wasn't expecting to get called with anything less than 1010 or 99 from any of the villains that weren't drunk stuck brown guy or maybe his friend but unlikely and obviously old man was folding. If I do get called by a pair I don't mind flipping with all that dead money and a premium hand.

Sweet.

Interested in the etiquette on this. I've had someone warn me that they could see my cards. I think saying it once is the right thing to do. If they persist so be it.

WP

Yeah.. I feel like if you're dumb enough to expose your hole cards you deserve to lose.. but a friend of mine basically accused me of elder abuse lol. I can see it both ways but I can't ever bring myself to say anything... I guess I'm a prick.

Standard, WP. Fire up an equity calculator and assign V2 some ranges for the $25 raise. Unless he's super tight you should find shoving is profitable almost regardless how often he calls and folds (dead money * fold%) + ((total pot when called * AQ equity vs V calling range - $your raise AI amount) * call% ). Dead money is king.

granted, since it's 1/2 there's always the chance someone behind flatted with AK but what can ya do

I cant really see how its a high variance play. Its either jam pre, or call and go multiway and basically bleed money. High variance means coinflipping, this is just not playing bad and printing money.

Thanks for the replies. I guess results don't matter as consensus is that I made a good play. I posted this hand because I tend to be on the too aggro side, especially pre. Results: board ran 2592A

Villain shows:A10
Hero scoops $530

And then I get berated by villains friend because he would have flopped a flush had I not shoved which gets him tilted and he spews a ton gunning for me. Love live poker.

I'd tell the old man at least once that I can see his cards when he's reading them and he should do a better job of protecting his hand.

I'm totally cool with how you played it.

Gnicehand,imoG

Love it.

grunch.

perfect. well played.

I probably let the old guy know early on that I can see his cards, but I don't begrudge you for not doing so either.

<3

Thanks for responses. I made another play like this with AQhh a year ago but without reads and the presence of a super tilted drunk fish and i got called by QQ who flatted. So it can definitely go both ways.

grunch: standard.

If you're not doing this, then you're doing it wrong.



As far as exposed cards, if it's an old guy who's struggling to see his hand, you should give him one heads up. If it's a young guy who's just being careless that's another thing. You also shouldn't be craning your neck to see anyone's hand.

I'll start warning the elderly that they're exposing hole cards... it does feel kind of wrong.

Redskins: wasn't re-popping it the whole reason you called AQss from the SB after a straddle? If so, what other options do you even have after everyone calls? I guess you could reraise $200, but that's about it.

The only one to worry about would have been V1 since he could, theoretically at least, limp-reraise hoping to trap V2 the same way you just did. But considering you know what he has (lol) you are basically closing the action here. Although even if you didn't I would discount it heavily considering his OMC image.

To everyone else you basically just limp-straddle-reraised all-in which, to me, is pretty damn uncapped and can easily be AA. You got exactly what you wanted. Nice hand.

Yes. That was the plan. Trap V2 with a premium hand. Ty