Flopping pair of aces with medium kicker out of position
Join Date: Dec 2018
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1/2 NL, Effective stacks 175.
Been sitting at the table about 30 minutes. V1 is loose-passive, a bit of a calling station. V2, Russian guy in his late 30s, is loose as well, more on the aggressive side. Table has loosened up in general due to one steaming player splashing chips around in many pots, raising $30 pre-flop on like 70% of his hands. But this player is away from the table during this particular hand.
Preflop Hero SB, straddled pot and two players limped back to me. I raise to 15. Two callers. Hero has AdJc.
Pot is $50.
Flop Ac6c2h.
Hero bets 25. Both call.
Pot is $125.
Turn comes 6s.
Hero checks. Villain checks. Villain 2 bets 60. Hero calls. Villain 1 calls.
Pot at $305.
River 7s.
Hero checks. Villain 1 checks. Villain 2 bets 60.
I know I raised too small pre. What about my flop sizing? And did I totally screw up the turn? River has got to be a snap call, right?
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Last edited by Garick; 03-03-2019 at 11:06 AM.
Reason: fixed suits, formatting
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Whoops forgot to mention this is 1/2.
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Tapatalk sucks. Any chance you can repost this so its readable?
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Thanks for letting me know. I’ll repost
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Just tell me what the suits are supposed to be, and I'll edit OP for you.
Edit, actually nevermind. Each emoji had a different number, so I assigned a suit to each number. These might not be the correct suits, but the relationship is correct.
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Thanks!!
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Yeah, with the straddle on, and a medium hand OOP, I either raise much larger pre, or just complete and play small-ball.
Flop is fine, looking to get some value from worse aces. I might go a bit bigger with the FD out.
Turn and river are both good, imo. Don't want to bloat the pot with TPMK, but once V2 bets small, there's a lot you beat in his range, mostly worse aces, and not many 6s which it seems would usually bet bigger. Also, he l/c so there aren't many better aces in his range. We're really only worried about boats/quads here.
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More pre
Snap calling river ap
Actually like b/b/b line with the fd and to get value from worse Ax as I think most AQ, AK raise pre
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Ditto most replies. Way more pre, as you know. Turn is fine and river is a snap.
I can get behind a bet on the turn, too, but I'm fine with the check/call. You might get a little more that way (if you are ahead).
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More pre.
Bet turn. You're usually still good here.
AP, I might even consider raising the river. $60 is a lol tiny bet which I don't expect people to make with anything very strong and it's hard to put you on an A with the line you took, so I think you can get calls from worse A.
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I like the b/b/b line that some people proposed, check on the turn was at least a small mistake I think.
Results: I called the $60, other player folded. V showed A7 for a rivered two-pair. I was having a hard time objectively thinking about the hand because of the results, so thanks all for helping me walk through it.
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