Hero (100bb) on the button with AQo, raise to 15,

2 villians call

Flop is J24 rainbow

Checked around to hero who bets 20. Both villians call.

Turn is an A

Checked to Hero who bets 35, villian 1 folds and villian 2 re reraises to 95. Hero calls

River is an A

Villian shoves all in (semi aggressive player and deep stacked) Hero calls

Villian wins with 44


How could I have played this differently?

is this 2/5 or 1/3?

2/5 would be 370 into 300
1/3 would be 170 into 300

I would be calling easier in a 1/3 game, but as he was described, it's not that big of a deal. Sometimes there's not much we can do. When we decide to call the turn (which is fine) we're usually stuck calling the rest of it off anyway.

It was a 1/3 game

I'm cool with preflop.

Flop I'm either/or 3ways. I'm fine with a small bet or a check/back.

I probably lean to checking back the turn. We're not committed. The board isn't drawy. Literally the only flop draw (53) got there. It's unlikely we're going to get worse to continue paying off on this card, and if we're best we're likely a 9:1 fave at this point and are just trying to eke out one more value bet / bluffcatch on the river. Obviously when not good we're cool with pot controlling. As played, I fold to the check/raise; this should hit our AK/etc. and yet he doesn't care.

Next time include pot size / bet size so we don't have to do the math ourselves, and don't include results (which will taint responses). I don't get to the river. Looks like we have just under a PSB left? There really shouldn't be any two pear that we counterfeit (J4/J2/42, really?) and we've played our hand strongly and don't look to ever be folding, so I probably hero fold.

Overall, really have to be up against someone mega spewy / overplayee / clueless to be stacking off here, imo.

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Thanks for the response. Yeah my bad, I will include pot size next time. First post on this site

Not a bad first post, the pot was easy enough to figure out.

One thing you might do next time is leave the results out until a lot of ppl were able to chime in, cuz otherwise it might influence them to be results oriented (not gonna mention any names) :O

Much moreso than other possible turn cards, the ace in particular is very dangerous.

The reason for this is because players play a lot of Ax hands so players are going to have two pair hands like A2 or A4 in this spot where they would be unlikely have hands like Q2, Q4, K2, or K4. Also, the most obvious straight draw on the board just completed. When villain raises on the turn he's telling you that AQ is no good. You're the preflop raiser so AK is a very likely holding for you and yet your opponent is not scared to shovel more money into the pot.

I saw a hand like this yesterday where the board was AAT7 on the turn and a player bet and then called a raise with AQ. The river was another 7, so the board read AAT77. The guy then played AQ like he had the nuts. The problem with this is that the raiser's range when he raises the turn is mostly AT, A7, TT, 77. AT and 77 will both play for stacks, A7 is a chop, and TT is probably not betting much less calling a river raise.