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Originally Posted by pokerfan655
I might defend bb here too although I'd rather have something like T9o. I honestly don't mind raising the flop as he has a lot of unpaired hands he cbets but I'd raise smaller. Once he calls and you turn an ace, you should be betting and stacking off - checking just allows him to check back worse hands and bet better hands. But yeh if the structure is good and field is weak, I would avoid high variance plays like this.
I felt the structure was bad. I had 30bbs deep and had a too 3 stack at my table. Everyone else was sitting with short stacks like 5-20bbs. 100 left in field and avg stack was something lol like 20-25bbs maybe (at the point where a lot of people were getting knocked out). I do agree that this was fancy play syndrome. I’m prolly better off just folding flop and maintaining stack
The villian ended up having AKo. Personally, I think we have to defend A6o here bc villian can utg raise a lot of worse hands even though they have a position advantage post. Also think extreme caution needs to be followed when flop is Axx bc we prolly can’t call 2 streets and expect to be good always. I would be more fine if utg was an old man omc raising to say 2.5x-3.5x.
Also agree with other poster though that I would rather defend a hand like 9-10o in spot like this.