Villain had been raising all his buttons, so I defended with a9o early on (perhaps incorrect). Flop top two and "sandbag" him flatting flop instead of raising, with the intent of raising the turn on a non-spade. The hand reminded me of one of my favorite movies and all I could do was laugh it off.

Can I get away from it after the turn 3-bet, or should I chalk it off as a cooler? I figured AK, AQ stack off here and the only hands that beat me in his range are sets of twos, tens, or AT.


Here's the hand, unconverted though:


PokerStars Game #18041656941: Tournament #91555347, $20+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2008/06/10 - 09:23:15 (ET)
Table '91555347 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: xxxxxxxxxx (1440 in chips)
Seat 2: fritzc32 (1560 in chips)
fritzc32: posts small blind 10
xxxxxxxxxx: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to xxxxxxxxxx [Ad 9h]
fritzc32: raises 40 to 60
xxxxxxxxxx: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [9s 2s Ah]
xxxxxxxxxx: checks
fritzc32: bets 80
xxxxxxxxxx: calls 80
*** TURN *** [9s 2s Ah] [Tc]
xxxxxxxxxx: checks
fritzc32: bets 120
xxxxxxxxxx: raises 200 to 320
fritzc32: raises 540 to 860
xxxxxxxxxx: raises 440 to 1300 and is all-in
fritzc32: calls 440
*** RIVER *** [9s 2s Ah Tc] [5s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
xxxxxxxxxx: shows [Ad 9h] (two pair, Aces and Nines)
fritzc32: shows [Ac As] (three of a kind, Aces)
fritzc32 collected 2880 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2880 | Rake 0
Board [9s 2s Ah Tc 5s]
Seat 1: xxxxxxxxxx (big blind) showed [Ad 9h] and lost with two pair, Aces and Nines
Seat 2: fritzc32 (button) (small blind) showed [Ac As] and won (2880) with three of a kind, Aces

I'm not good enough to ever fold here.

It's the small 3bet that gets me in this hand... part of me felt like I should have laid it down right then and there but I figured the turn put out too many draw combos in his range he could be making a move with.

If you feel villain was raising buttons with too wide a range, a 3-bet pre-flop would have helped define hand range better than a flat call. If he had shoved, A9o is an easy fold. Apart from that, rest of the hand is standard.

Please convert hand.

It's a trivial beat tbh. You checked the flop to him so he can have anything. On the turn, his range is far too wide to fold.