I've been trying to reduce my volatility by not shoving so much and I am definately not choosing the right spots. I am trying to milk the hand a bit yet I get reraised on the flop so I figure he is onto something. I'm aware my 1st flop bet was too small but should I have shoved on the reraise here from drawing any flushes?


Poker Stars $3.00+$0.40 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 8 players
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BTN: t1450
Hero (SB): t1470
BB: t1370
UTG: t1420
UTG+1: t2170
MP1: t1640
MP2: t1440
CO: t2540

Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is SB with 9 9
UTG raises to t100, 5 folds, Hero calls t90, 1 fold

Flop: (t220) A 9 4 (2 players)
Hero bets t160, UTG raises to t320, Hero raises to t480, UTG calls t160

Turn: (t1180) J (2 players)
Hero checks, UTG bets t200, Hero calls t200

River: (t1580) A (2 players)
Hero bets t690 all in, UTG calls t640 all in


I hit full house and now I unleash my fury as I believe he has a flush or trip Aces with K or Q kicker. Anyone else have same read or was mine just real bad?

Oh god.. you missplayed it on all streets.

1. Preflop i'd fold. UTG+1 range is so strong here, you can only call to setmine, and it gives you soso odds.
2. Either check/call or check/raise flop. Why do you lead out? What was that gay 4-bet on the flop? Horrible.
3. Bet/shove Turn

I don't think calling preflop is bad at all. I'll call up to 10% of my stack in a situation like this although I would have liked one more caller perhaps.

As for the flop, I like betting out as it looks like a I have a flush draw trying to set the price for a turn card. But that's where you went wrong. When you got raised, you've got to get it in. It looks like he likes his hand & only AA beats you which he'll almost never have here if he's a good player. Anyone who bets 5bbs from early position with AA doesn't do it very long before realizing it's not the way to play AA.

Actually, folding pf is good if we have a read that UTG's limp is really strong, we don't have the odds for purely set value & you shouldn't stack off with an overpair postflop if your read is that he is really strong.

Once you hit the set you can't really screw it up too bad. Shoving over on the flop is fine, but if not at least CRAI on the turn or shove the turn.

I lead out cause I figured from UTG he have AK and would call or reraise like he did, if he didn't than hand would be over there. I don't 'setmine' or trap in early when blinds are this low. I play aggressive when I have a hand and grind my chips up instead of trying to slow play and let them catch a flush. If I checked and he checked than I would allow for the flush draw to complete and since the A is offsuited, it's a decent chance he could have Ad any diamond kicker. When the turn came, it scared me to not lead out but I wasn't gonna give up the hand.

Donking is fine, it gets JJ-KK to play back a lot easier, then if you make a big C/R. Check/calling is obv fine but that's scarier for these hands too. You will often get a bigger pair(than yours) to do exactly what he did. You still get the same value from AK,Ax, they aren't folding

I'm not sure we have odds preflop to call a 5x raise
As played min 3bet on flop is horrible, just get in after his raise. I like the donk only if you shove behind, else it's useless
Check turn is really bad too

I like betting this flop, UTG range includes a hell of a load of aces so is bound to raise you plus it doesnt give him the free card if he's on a flush draw.

Once he raises you there is 700 in the pot and you have around 1200 left so just shove all in and get called by all kinds of FD's, Aces, 2 pair etc.

it was bad of me to call preflop but i still have the donk mentality of blinds are so small that it's worth a call with a decently strong hand. my problem is i rarely put people on top pocket pairs so that did not come into mind. I first put people on AK-AJ, KQ. I wanted to see a flop so if I did not see overcards, I can play 99 strong.

I know the 3 bet flop was horrible. Normally I jam it there but I just didn't think too hard.

+1 with others:

I prob fold pf unless I have another caller or two.

I lead the flop like almost always for t180-200 and shove over his raise.

LMAO, I was about to say, lemme guess, he had JJ?