1/3 AA in BB facing flop shove
Join Date: Mar 2021
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Hero is a rec player still looking to improve game, sitting with $600. Villian is a random tourist whose only been there a couple orbits, not much in the way of reads yet, sitting with about $400. Villian has gone up $100ish from flopped 2 pairs and such, hasen't appeared to get too creative or out of line. Doesn't "seem" like a 3 betting kind of player. OTTH:
Hero looks down at two red Aces in BB. UTG+1 raises to $10, 4 people call, hero raises to $65 from the BB, folds around to villian who snap calls.
Flop: Kh Kd 4d
Hero bets $50, villian snap shoves for $340ish. Hero? Obviously AK in villian's range, but doesn't seem like something he would shove with, unless he's thinking "OmG FlUsH DrAw." But at the same time, noone wants to get stacked off just because OMG ACES!!
Hero should...??
Join Date: Apr 2017
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I think I’m checking this flop a whole bunch more of the time.
As played chuckle, then insta-fold and thank V for the snap shove. Flop snap raise/shove is not a bluff line from rec player.
Join Date: Mar 2008
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He's protecting his king from a flush.
Join Date: Jul 2006
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If everyone is at $400 then I'm ok with our preflop sizing (offers poor ~8:1 odds to the first ~setminer), although with all this dead money / OOP I wouldn't hate on slightly larger either (and would certainly go bigger if stacks are bigger).
With the Ad/Kd out-of-play (and thus unlikely dude is on a flush draw), this is kinda a WA/WB spot for me on the flop. Doubt we're getting too much action (and certainly not 3 streets) from underpairs (which are a huge dog at this point). And obviously we're not getting better to fold. So I might lean to a check. Although if betting, I'm fine with a small bet (I might even go smaller).
I probably lean to a hero fold as played. Certainly tougher to do if we feel a bit readless though. And I'll admit I probably make too many hero folds.
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