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Originally Posted by hazelasty
pure check back on the flop
Not pure check back at all. When I see pure check back I think you mean full range check back, and that is not true, although this hand does make a lot of sense to check back.
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Originally Posted by SabinSala
thanks, is it because of the two spades and lack of spades in our hand?
No. It concerns your absolute equity, lack of robustness, playability, side cards and blockers.
Let's say we play a B50/B100 strategy in this spot (which is what I play and I am not sure why you are betting B33). On this texture we should be betting about 50% of our range and primarily for half pot. With AA, that goes up slightly to about 60%. With two or more spades, that goes up to 98%, and the only checks we have is when we have K2, K9, 92 in our hand. With the naked As we bet about 70% of the time.
So, your hand is AA92 on a K92ss board; if you bet, what hands are you targeting to call? You unblock Kings, which is good, but you block 9 and 2, so that reduces the number of calling hands in your opponent's range and weights him more towards Spades (we are probably a flip) or KK. Additionally, his top pair hands will often have a flush draw, and these will often play aggressively against us here, which is bad.
We'd like to see a turn card with our hand, as we have moderate equity with poor playability. We are not excited about playing for stacks on this board yet, but if we bet, we basically have to.
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As I have been tilted from losing so many hands due to different reasons, I just wanted to get back and reraised all in.
This is horrible and you should quit playing if you feel like this.