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09-13-2019 , 06:27 AM
I'm mostly a limit player and feel a bit lost playing no limit. I'm currently traveling in Finland, and no limit is all there is (unless I want to play PLO) so... I'm playing no limit.

The game has 2 blinds of 2.5 euro each. Max buy-in is 350. I have a little over 700 in front of me.

I limp up front with 33. MP (with over 600 in front of him) makes it 7.5, two cold calls, I call.

I have played a big pot against MP before. I shoved the turn with Ac7c on a board of KT7x (2 clubs). He snap-called with QQ, lost when I rivered a 7, and referred to it as a 2-outer (??).

Flop is T73r, giving me bottom set. I bet out 15. Raiser calls, one more call, and a fold.

Turn is an 8. I bet 60. Raiser makes it 180. One fold and we are heads up. I probably can't get away from the hand if he has a bigger set or a straight, so I want to raise here. Making it 300 seems low. 500 seems better, at which point I'm totally committed anyway, so I just shove (figuring that a shove looks weaker than a large non-all-in raise)

Thoughts? Is this a reasonable way to play it?
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09-13-2019 , 07:06 AM
Welcome to Finland!

Dont limp. Bigger flop when theres a bazillion of players in the pot for some reason.

OTT calling is propably better to let him blast his bluffs on the river but I suppose a raise isnt terrible in these loose live games; hes propably calling you with worse. Shove is the only sizing that makes sense imo.
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09-13-2019 , 08:37 AM
I'm just going to skip right to the results... He snap-called, flipped over aces, and I doubled up. This brings me to my real question...

How do you not go bust with aces when you are 300 BB deep and someone flops a set on a safe-looking board? In other words, if I'm the one in MP with aces, how should I play them in this spot?
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09-13-2019 , 09:26 AM
Lets start by not making it 3BB facing a 1BB limp and two 1BB blinds 300BB deep. I would iso to maybe 8-10BB in such a loose game.

When he gets donked into he should really be hoping already that you are misplaying some top pair type hand and keep calling. The turn raise is just so bad. He shouldnt be looking to get stacks in for 300BB with such a big spr OTF.
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09-13-2019 , 02:29 PM
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Originally Posted by AceHighIsGood
How do you not go bust with aces when you are 300 BB deep and someone flops a set on a safe-looking board? In other words, if I'm the one in MP with aces, how should I play them in this spot?
Better to call down than raise at any point.
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