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Originally Posted by krilleater
I'm playing a $1/3 at a fairly action-packed table. MP has $500 and is young gambly Asian reg. CO and BTN are relatively unknown (both short stacked).
My stack is ~$300 at this point.
MP opens to 20, CO calls, BTN calls, hero raises to 90 with black Aces in SB, MP calls, CO all in for 140, BTN all in 120, I call, MP calls.
This was super frustrating in that I couldn't 5-bet due to their all-in sizing ($90->140 doesn't reopen betting). Should I have sized differently to account for that?
Flop: Kh3hKd
Grunch, terrible flop. I feel like at least one V has a King here in a 4-bet pot all the time.
Hero?
When CO calls the 20, with 140 behind, I have to take notice that it's possible they shove. A raise to 80 seems awful, but it does open the betting back up and you can shove over. If 140 folds, but 120 shoves, you are in the same spot as before. So now we consider a raise to 70 instead of 80. Offers some kind of shove insurance.
Raising to 140 might get you to the same spot, faster. In general, I'm happy to shovel chips in the pot with AA preflop, LDO.
Considering the raise to 150, might as well make it a shove yourself. With 300, the raise to 90 is pretty pot committing. CO knows they aren't chasing many out of the pot with the raise, and BTN the same. I think they call, and MP might as well too.
With that flop, it's probably a bad break. Seems that you may be up against a K, and at least 1 Ace may be out there in a hand too. You are happy to shovel those chips in preflop.
As played, with $160 behind, and a main pot of $480 (minus rake) a side pot of $60 and just MP left... $160 is going to fold to your shove without a K or draw. I think I'm sigh shoving, hoping MP. Has QQ and I get my money back.