I am in a hand in a 1/3 underground game when the host announces that my taxi has arrived to take me home. 'Yeah, i'll just be a few minutes' I say, having picked up AKo in MP

EP raises to $12, I call, and a tight reg in the CO who hasn't played much in the last few orbits, also calls. I have $280, CO covers.


Flop ($40) K T 4 rainbow. EP leads for $30, I elect to call, because it is a dry board and I am hoping that either villain has a K or a 10, Villain in CO raises to $110. EP folds, I think for a while, and call.

Turn ($270) I check with $160 behind. Villain puts me AI. I act like I have a tricky decision to make for about 20 seconds, and then fold.

As I get up from the table, villain says jovially, 'I knew you weren't playing that hand because you were about to leave.' I am like, whatever.

For the record, he does like to raise with big draws, but the last time he won a big pot off me it was by slowplaying a FH and check raising my flush on the river.

So, does the speech indicate the nuts here? Or as he implied, was he exploiting what he perceived to be my lack of commitment with a bluff?

ask the villian next time this happens if he has a good hand and if he shugs his shoulders then theres a good chance he has a good hand.

Live reads won't help if you make strategically weak plays like calling AKo in MP vs. an EP RFI...

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Hard to say but I don’t like going 3 ways to the flop with AKo without the betting lead

Doesn't matter much if he bluffed when you flat AK Pre after an open.

Need to adjust your aggression levels.

I don't think there's any information to be had there.

One thing that struck me was that if you told the guy "I'll be a few minutes" it might be a sign that you have a decent but not super-strong hand. Because I think it's likely if you had QQ+ you'd probably not imply you'd be "a few minutes" and maybe wouldn't even say anything except "one sec." Something I'd be thinking about if I heard you say that. The "few minutes" is kind of implying "I've got something good" which I don't think you'd do if you had QQ+. But very minor clue in scheme of things.

The villain would probably rub it in and show a bluff if he knew you were leaving. His comment after the hand sounds a bit like "goating" which is typical behavior from a strong hand. However, the V could easily have done with with something like KQ thinking it was the nuts because you unrepped your hand so much.

He puts you on a weak K or AT or 99. Or even QJ. He never puts you on a dominating hand, like top pair/top kicker.

The fact that you announced it was your last hand gives an aggressor an advantage. They will think they can pressure you off a medium hand because you dont want to lose your profit on the very last hand.

AK could very well have been best hand. And once you called the 110, you were practically pot committed unless the flop composition changed drastically on the Turn. (You dont appear to mention what the Turn card was.)

> but the last time he won a big pot off me it was by slowplaying a FH and check raising my flush on the river.

And in this case he wasnt slowplaying. He was applying maximum pressure.

Sure, he could have had KT or 44, but you let them in because you didnt show any aggression pre-flop. At the very least, aggression wouldve gotten yourself heads up.

how can you fold that given that spr ?

so what are you calling here with sets only? i think you give way to much credit there where he can easily have a worse hand.

and by the way what was the turn card?a brick?^^

Color me befuddled.

"I am not going to see this through but let me give him 110 bucks before I leave"