$1-$2 NL: On the button at a table I have been at for a few hours. My image was not tight but not overly aggressive either. I had been involved in a lot of pots because I was catching decent cards. So on the button I get aces and 4 callers ahead. I raise to $11 (my stack is $400). BB re-raises to $30 and everyone folds. His stack is about $125 after the RR. I think about it for a minute and based on his previous play I knew he had kings or queens. I decide if he has kings he will call an all in so I shove to try and get it in right then. He INSTA folds kings face up. I felt like if I had raised to $60 he would have known that I had aces. A shove to me is easier for him to call there because he is only afraid of one hand with kings. Or should I have just flat called his raise and waited for the flop to get it in?

LOL at this guy insta folding face up.

You played the hand fine, I'd probably say at a normal $1/$2 game you should raise more pre to think the field, I imagine if he didn't 3bet you that you would go a waterfall of callers.

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I think 4bet to 75 would have got the rest in on the flop at most, the jam does look like you have it, what else would you be 4bet jamming with after he 3bet you from the blinds? (this is how he was thinking).

I hope you said "Really? wow good think I didn't just call you I had Queens" and mucked lol

fwiw yes raise a little more pf to get it heads up or 3way at most raise to 15 or 17

ibl

Pretty standard shove at $1/$2 with his $125 behind. 99% of 1/2 players are never folding KK here, esp $125 behind. You just ran into the 1%, lol...

Raise more pre, say $18-$20. This will make it easier for an opponent with a big pair/<100 bbs stack to commit.

To be honest, I just call here a lot. Stacks are so short and he's gonna flop an overpair almost 87% with KK, almost 70% of the time with QQ, 50% of the time with JJ. If he's not getting it in with QQ or JJ preflop (if he is, the shove isn't bad), but if he's a kinda scared rec players, I'd call.

He is gonna bet like 40 on 70%+ of flops (and even more often as a bluff, maybe), and then he only has 50 something behind. This allows you to make a live read and get it in when ever you want and he is super rarely folding to is basically a min raise.

Basically, if he never gets it in with JJ, QQ, or AK, Just call and he's gonna flop an overpair so much and with stacks so short, you're gonna take his money a lot.

Raise to 15-18 pre then his three bet would have made him committed. You should raise this much anyway because all 4 of those limpers are going to call $9 more.
Once he raises, I may flat to disguise a bit or I think about it, ask for a count of his stack, make it seem like I'm willing to gamble for 62 bbs

$18 pre. lol @ him folding, what an idiot

Someone please direct Mr. Jedi to BBV. I forgot which way it was.

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