Private 5/5 game in Hollywood. 9 handed I'm btn, villain 1 is bb and villain 2 is utg. I'm definitely one of the tighter players at the table. I'm friendly with villain 1 and he views me as a winning tag. Villain 2 is older and seems like he views himself as a very good player. I don't. I've seen him way overplay some one pair hands in big pots and he is a poker "knowitall". He views me as nitty tag. Whatever. Oh yeah, $800 effective stacks.

Villain 2 limps. Folds to me on btn I raise to 20. Villain 1 calls as does villain 2.

Flop: 447r ($60)

Checks around. Seemed like the right play at the time.

Turn: Q offsuit

BB leads for $40 utg calls and I repop to $180. Bb folds utg calls. Bb says "aah, queens full" as he folds.

River: K ($460)

Utg checks. What's my line?

I raise a little more pre, and bet flop. As played I bet that river, near pot. It really looks like he has AQ and KQ here, and I hope it's KQ so he pays off and maybe raises. I can't see anything that might beat you, other than a random 4 or 77.

Now that I think about it, the river check looks like AQ unless he's the trappy type. Maybe a half pot bet is better, more likely to get called a fair amount. Def. pot if you think he'd call w AQ though.

bet bet bet

Normally I would cbet prolly 80% here but vs these two specific players I knew they would immediately fold all worse hands.

I absolutely think he would call a psb or close to it with AQ.

PSB it is then!

if you're going to play, raise preflop....
then definitely continue and see repsonse

bet bet bet why are you playing aces so weakly? don't you want to make money with them? On the flop you can make a ton of money off of smaller pairs calling you or if they're bad enough people calling you with air. bet the flop, bet the turn, the way you played, certainly bet the river

I usually do bet but I felt I needed to let utg catch up to make any real money. I'm not getting more than 1 street of value if he has 22-88. Bet flop is default against most players though. Once the Q hit the turn I thought KQ or AQ was 90% of his range. That being said I pushed and he called w/ 77.

nh