Hey y'all

I was playing 1/3 last night in my regular casino - I normally play 1/2 but have occasionally played with these guys before. There's a lot of transfer of players between the two tables, and pretty much everyone at the table knew each other incl. myself. My image is a pretty tight player, who is solid but doesn't take too many risks.

An hour or so in I've doubled my stake and I'm up to ~£1k. I pick up AKos on the button. UTG raises pre flop to £20 and gets 3 callers before it circles to me. I make it £90 to go, happy to take it down (~£80 pot) but also happy with a caller or two to take to the flop. UTG tanks for about a minute before making the call. UTG+1 takes 10-20 seconds before flatting too, with everyone else folding. UTG is one of the best regs in the casino, very aggressive and bluffy and UTG+1 is a loose whale who loves to gamble.

The flop is:

Jd9d6c

Action checks round to me. At this point my opponents put me on KK/AA, and my feeling is that even AK may be ahead at the moment. I decide to jam for my remaining stack (~£900) in an attempt to take down the £300 pot, only really fearing JJ at this point - I believed that most hands ought to fold given my opponents perception of me. Even if I get unexpectedly called by a pocket pair of QQ or less my cards would still be live, and I thought that any draw would still be an underdog. My thought process was pretty quick, taking ~5 seconds before shoving.

UTG tanks for about 2 minutes before deciding to call my all in, UTG+1 takes about 5 seconds before calling too. There's now ~£3k in the pot.

UTG asks me if I have a pocket pair and I confirm no, that I have AK with no diamond. He tells me he has the Ace high flush draw (Ad5d). UTG+1 turns over 3d4d.


The turn is:

8d


Immediately after I felt ok with how everything worked out, although am now having doubts and perhaps I actually played my hand badly. I was definitely getting the right odds (3-1 on my money) and I *thought* I was the favourite. That said I've since ran a odds calculator and apparently its a 50/50 between myself and UTG (UTG is actually 39% vs my 38%?), with UTG+1 having a 5-1 shot at winning (19%).

Does anyone have any feedback on how I played the hand? Any constructive thoughts and comments welcome.

This is a flop that hits their range better than yours. I think we want to check back frequently.

The overbet jam is :O. I guess it’s gonna work a lot but when you get called you’ll sometimes have 1% equity.

You got a really lucky result here to somehow be ahead.

Just check back on flop here, multi-way on this wet board, against a solid opponent and a loose whale.

Neither of them is folding their 2P or good combo draws. The whale isn't folding top pair. The solid V could have JJ or 99.

Check back, see if they check to you again on turn. If they do, and the turn is a safe card, then we can put in a delayed c-bet.

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You bluffed with the best hand, so it sort of worked but not how you intended.

I'm with the others this flop is mostly a check back. This board is much better for them than for you. There are lots of sets, lots of top pair, the very occasional two pair, lots of open enders and flush draws. A normal bet is getting check-raised loads. Your overbet jam is unconventional, it's creative and it's probably does get some folds from better hands but you're rarely in great shape when called and you need a lot of folds for this size.

As an aside, presumably the UTG reg was wondering whether to 4bet his A5s preflop and took an age to decide against it.

It's a bold play to 3x shove the flop but I don't think the risk justifies the reward. And if you had an overpair is this the play to make? (Maybe...in this lineup, and given the reverse psychology of it looking like you just want to take down the pot)