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1-2 Cash game Maryland Live! Casino, Hanover MD.
Stack size approximately $575
Pick up Aces (red) in the small blind!
UTG calls $2 UTG+1 folds. UTG+2 makes it $20. MP1 makes it $18. MP 2 calls. Folds around to me, I make it $45 to go.
BB folds. UTG calls, MP1 calls, MP2 calls. 4 ways to the flop.
9C 4S KS.
I check (probably a mistake) UTG checks MP1 makes it $40 (crazy player) MP2 folds. I flat(not sure) UTG calls. 3 ways.
Turn- Another King!!! (Club) I check (again such a weird hand) UTG checks. MP 40 again. I flat… UTG folds.
River- Jack (red) I check UTG all in.. has me covered. I go into the tank and ultimately find a fold….
Feel like I should have bet out the flop for sure… and possibly led out big on the river? Didn’t want to bet the turn. Pocket jacks obviously has me, as well as any king… but I have blockers to AK?? What do you guys think?? Honestly I just wish I had called the river.
Preflop – 3bet size should be bigger, around the $75 to $80 mark, because of the additional caller and us being OOP. When you 3bet to $45 you are giving the other players a good price to call and AA doesn’t play well multi-way.
Flop – With the board being pretty wet, I like leading out on the flop to protect my hand. We will also to get some value from top pair, combo draws, and flush draws. There is some merit to check raising this flop but you do run the risk of it checking through and giving our opponents a free card. I’m not a fan of the check call route because we are letting our opponents name their price to draw.
Turn – I personally like the check call route here for pot control reasons. The Kc brings another flush draw and we are now behind AK. If we lead and our opponent raises we are put in a tough spot, and what will we do if we face a big bet on the river?
River – Facing a all in on the river I think folding is the best option. We now lose to any K, QT, 44, 99, and JJ. I don’t think my opponent will be bluffing much in this spot.
Bet bigger pre-flop. I like the above sizing of $80. Biggest argument here is that its much easier to get money from people when they think they have a chance. Best flop you can hope for with AA to get called by legitimately strong hands are usually ones where you flop a set, and by blocking top pairs at that point, its much harder to get money. So get as much in as you can pre, which also gets other players out of the hand.
K94 is a dream scenario, and definitely a board you should be firing on, get hands like KQ KJ to call, and maybe some spade draws will re-raise, but with only one ace left and AKs not possible, they can’t be drawing to the nuts. As played, should definitely checkraise, charge his draws and top pairs.
Turn: this is where checkraising would have given us a ton more info on the flop. He is much more likely to have a K if he called our checkraise. But now we are guessing what he has. As played his $40 bet is fine to call. You get nothing out of leading.
River, almost certainly behind when he jams. The only reasonable hands we *were* ahead of he could have been playing this way seems like JJ or A/Q+10, and this J on the river means we lose to more of those combos. So this is a fold. UNLESS, you have been paying close enough attention to this player to see if he is capable of making bluff-jams on missed draws. While unlikely, He could try to steal with missed spades, or he could think he’s value jamming with AJ because he doesn’t believe you have a K. Reads will be important here to decide if there is a chance you are ahead. There are bad players out there, and some will make these kinds of moves. Tough to make the call, but they can be nice boosts to your chip stack.
-Sean
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