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I’m playing 1/2 with good action. There is a player that doesn’t really fold. I have AA UTG. I make it $30, 3 callers including the action player that calls almost everything. Flop is Ks 2d 8s. I make it $50. 2 fold, action player calls. Turn comes 5s now I have the nut spade redraw I bet $80, he calls. The river comes 10d, I make it $150, he calls.
He flips over K 5. For 2 pair.
I was wondering if my bet amounts were wrong?
Honestly you really didn’t do anything wrong. Granted, those sizings are more appropriate for a much bigger game, but if you’re getting 3 callers when you make it $30 pre-flop the sizing is fine. And if a guy is calling $30 pre-flop with K5 there’s not much you’re going to be able to do when he hits a K. Target guys like this with your monsters and try to extract as much value as possible. Bet big when you have a hand.
Huge sizes for a $1/$2, but if you got callers then its apparently correct. I think the flop should get sized up a bit though – you want to deny that spade draw (even if you block the nut draw), and you will very often get value from Kings. Maybe more like 2/3 pot ($80). Turn is a great card for you, shouldn’t change anything. River is a little worse – there are maybe some K10s in his range, especially the 10 of spades. But still, no reason to not bet here.
Seems like you’re always right around 1/3 pot on your bets. I think you could maybe size up to 1/2 or 2/3 if you’re facing an action opponent. You have a premium hand, charge him to continue with all of his drawing hands and 1-pair hands. Like John says, bet big when you have a hand, and AAs count as having a hand.
K-5 (please say it was at least suited diamonds…) should really never be getting played here. I’m surprised he didn’t raise the turn or river on you. So rough beat on this one, but keep firing at this guy, your money will come back.
What are your stack sizes?? I still can’t get over a 1/2 game that has a UTG open to 30 and then 3 callers. My local game caps the buy-in at 200, so we’d only have 85 BBs left to play with, against a pot of 60 BBs. I’d have been shoving on the flop.
Hans his hand was off suit. I’m thinking that the spades kept him from raising me. But when he flipped his cards I was surprised that he did not raise me.
My stack was at $700 and his was at somewhere around $500. We were the top 2 stacks on the table.
The game was not really playing like a $1/$2 game. Fortunately I was able to build my stack back up to about $500 before I left.
Lets take it from another angle. Its a great flop for aces and I’m thinking you are going to get 3 streets of value if he catches a King, especially being a loose player. Yeah, you have to be aware of the spades and nothing wrong with downsizing your bet when the third spade comes up. However, still need to be betting for value. The only tough item is that giving the amount of money in the pot, I would concerned your opponent has more than a pair. I think you have to use prior information to help you size your betting. Is he loose but only continues to the river when he makes hands? I think you’re sizing was just right. I think you were trying to extract max value and he just got lucky. It happens.
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