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Originally Posted by wolfbook
You have AAJT double suited. AAKK double suited often comes up as the best AA hand, but when you talk about AAxx without a second pocket pair, AAJT is often considered that best. You literally have one of the best hands possible. You have to leverage the situation as best as possible to make a huge pot preflop.
You made a technical error preflop. You should have only raised enough so that the players with about $400 putting in a re-raise would have left you the ability to re-re-raise instead of the action not being able to be reopened. Therefore your preflop raise should have been for $200 not $300. Scanning the table and knowing player's stack sizes and thinking about how much to bet so that the action can remain open when you want or closed when you want is important.
Then you would have had an already big side pot preflop with the other deep stack and on the flop the stack to pot ratio would have been so low that it would be a no brainer to get it in on the flop no matter the flop cards.
I agree, it was a mistake but this is what I had been thinking.
Prior to this there was another situation where I had double suited AA and there was a straddle $5 btn, blind raise to $20 from sb, blind raise to $60 (same guy as the $125 in the posted hand but this time he's $1000 eff), I pot to $205 and I get 4 callers. 3 of them only had $400 to $600.
Since 3 of them were willing to call 1/3rd or half their stack pre before, I didn't want to basically minraise and invite the entire table to play. Although it is possible one of them could've shoved over a small raise, the only one I really didn't want to tango with was the other deep stack and he was directly to my left. So I figured a bigger sizing would make him less inclined to call, and if the other players shove after he folds so be it. I also didn't expect almost the entire table to go all in lol.