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Originally Posted by Javanewt
What are your stacks?
Definitely raise pre-flop. Not sure I like the over-bet on the river. What worse is calling? Were you planning to bet fold or bet call or bet shove?
Thank you for your reply. $55 bet is for value, mostly expecting calls from lower two-pairs. Rarely expecting a river check-raise here, perhaps due to player-feel, but bet-folding if so.
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Originally Posted by Amanaplan
Too much deception at every street, straightforward for sure, especially in a game this slow -- everyone behind you just folded a straddled pot w two EP limps?
A hand this strong pre and post will make you more money when played ABC considering you're winning a majority or small/medium pot SDs on K44xx
Thank you for your reply. Limping UTG+1 with AsKs is for positional pot control. A relevant factor is a good player, who is raising on average at least one hand every round, and in particularly raising when I limp and sometimes open-limp is two to my left. I can comfortably call a two-bet pre-flop from him or any other player while creating some disguise for the strength of my hand.
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Originally Posted by shrewsbury91
The way you played the hand is pretty cringe-worthy, can you explain why you just flatted pre and checked flop? I'm first raising pre-flop to $20; AKs is a valuable premium hand pre-flop and we want to start pumping some money into the pot. Also, since UTG straddled he may be inclined to continue with a weaker range than normal since most people feel they have to defend their straddle, especially at $1/2. On the flop, I'm betting out $15 to get value from Kx and random PP's such as 55-88. As played, I actually like raising the turn small to $30-35 since our hand is fairly disguised and he won't fold most Kx except the very weak K2-K8 variety. Since he is in the SB he could have 4x, but that is the danger of slow-playing AK pre-flop.
On the river, I'm probably betting a little bit less($40-45) but since we didn't bet the flop and the turn we missed out on a substantial amount of value in this hand.
In the interest of risk aversion and at the expense of mathematical expected value maximization, my present philosophy approaching live low-stakes NL is to win multi-way showdowns with nut-type hands where I get to see rivers as cheaply as possible instead of a philosophy approaching live low-stakes NL where I am exploiting relatively smaller edges and folding out other players.
I.e. not trying to play fancy poker here, just trying to win money by making decisions easy for myself
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Originally Posted by winadil
horrible hand
no idea of stack depth,no reads on villain
raise pre bet flop,bet turn,bet river
I would expect this thread to get locked and OP read how to post hands
Thank you for your reply. I cover table with the maximum buy-in of $300; I did not notice stack sizes during hand; everyone at the ten-handed table is sizable; no one short. Both players are tight, not out of line, maybe good but just card-dead at the moment. Uninteresting info.