Did I play this hand badly?

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MickMurrr19

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Stack: 400$, 6max Nl 1$/2$ ring game

Pre-flop:
Ive got A8 off in the BB and everyone limps. I raise to 16$ to punish the limpers and take an OOP lead. UTG+2, HJ, and SB call.

Flop: 10c As 3s
(Pot: 64$)
I lead out 44$ UTG+2 and HJ call.

Turn: 10d
(Pot: 196$)
Bot opponents have less than 20 bb so i put them both allin.
UTG+2 shows 10-2 off
HJ show AQ

River: 6c


Should i have been less aggro. I didnt know at the time that the guy to my left was a fish who calls preflop raises with 10-2. I pretty much felt obligated to put them all in on the turn for 3 reasons.
1. I had top pair with a reasonable kicker (probably rly marginal)
2. They were both significantly shortstacked
3. I had already invested so much into the pot.
Does this situation make me seem like a donk. I know I overplayed it. What could I have done differently?
 
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Just check pre lol. Your going to end up playing an inflated pot with a less than ideal hand. As you can see, after raising you lost all control over pot sizing. Just check and take the flop, be glad ur at a table with so many limpers and punish them post flop using ur skills that are likely greater than theirs considering you knew to post this to a forum lol
 
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That preflop raise killed you

1. You inflated the pot
2. You are OOP
3. A8o is a horrible hand

Then the flop bet is whatever, but when you get 2 callers and than the board pairs is when you shut down and don't put another cent into that pot with your weak hand.
 
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very strange table, why a T2 called a raiser? why a player got AQ and then limps? with a table like this i play too tight, only monster hands so when i raise, i know there are going to suffer frequently, but i will fold or max limp A8o actually this kind of hands are almost useless (most of the time one is losing money with them) they are only good to shove preflop when facing one or two limpers and, one is almost sure they are going to fold and if not still one has a decent chance to win

A8 is so bad that one is losing with almost any ace why? because if the board doesn´t have an 8 but the ace then one is going to face the situation where Ax is over one´s hand almost 90%, if the board displays two lower cards then those Ax with one of these lower x are going to beat one´s ace, if anybody shows up holding Ax and the x is 8+, one is done too, so what´s the point to play a multiway with a hand like that, for me, when unfortunately they called your raise you should play check fold with such a playear in your table, and see what happened if you reached the sd, imho
 
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Pre flop you should have given check, the fact of being out of position and had no control pot
 
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It def makes sense to jus check OOP with a marginal hand. But when I flop top pair like tht in EP what do i do when there's 4 or 5 ppl behind to act? I dont wanna possibly give someone on a draw a free card. Should i just be passive and check call or lead out for 1/2 pot for info?
 
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I think your blunder is on the preflop. Your hand is not great to start with and raise with it. Add to it your out of position. Surely one of them has the A. You should just be on the defensive with that condition.
 
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Unless you have a pretty good read that the table is so loose passive that you're confident all five limpers will fold or you'll only get one caller a fair proportion of the time, raising seems overly optimistic. Did you think ahead? What were you planning to do OOP if you missed the flop, or even if you paired your 8?
 
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Preflop was your biggest mistake IMO. Your hand is weak why bloat the pot? The you got called and flopped top pair on a dangerous board. Try to play this pot smaller next time. One pair hands are small hands. So play a smaller pot with them.
 
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This seems like a situation where the players would almost call anything and everytime you raise preflop, this is a nice table to play . AQ guy probably scared or nervous and wanted to see flop without risking too much preflop, 10,2 guy obviously a fish and wanted to see the pot too hoping he would hit something lol. . If I had played a hand like that, I wouldn't even consider raising preflop with a8 against these guys especially OOP but if I had. I would have check the flop. These guys especially 10,2 is your ATM machine, they would make you rich before they leave the table if you play your A game. Why check flop. If you watch the AQ guy play , I am sure he would go into the pot with pretty much anything, most likely fold bad cards and try to only limp in with good cards to see the pot ,so you're suppose to think maybe he limp with something good , the reason why you would think that is because I'm sure he didn't raise other good hand unless top pair. Same goes with 10,2 guy but I'm sure if he had AQ he would raise to show you he has something good lol.so check flop to see what AQ does. IMO once I raise 16 preflop and AQ call I would instantly knows he has something decent , reason is why would he risk to see flop,he doesn't like to risk anything hence why he didn't raise preflop. Of course you have to watch him play before you can make this assumption, you had to atleast know how they played before raising with a8 I'm assuming. So the mistake you made was not good deduction skills of your opponent.
 
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just decided to read all the text you've posted and I wanted to help u but when i saw what hand you play and i stopped reading :D
Please dont play this pointless, meaningless, stupid and hopeless hand ......NEVER........!
 
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bad idea to raise with A8, but on flop you played good, why he called 10 2 after flop, ask him :D the bet on flop is ok!
 
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You maybe win if the other were begginers and fold
 
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It def makes sense to jus check OOP with a marginal hand. But when I flop top pair like tht in EP what do i do when there's 4 or 5 ppl behind to act? I dont wanna possibly give someone on a draw a free card. Should i just be passive and check call or lead out for 1/2 pot for info?

If you flop top pair, your kicker is so weak. If we reverse and you got your kicker the top pair, someone might have overpair. Your toast for both situations.
 
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