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IntenseHeat

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It's easy to give someone else advice or say how you should or shouldn't, would or wouldn't play a hand. And I know we often say what we always or never do. Of course there are circumstances and situations where we may feel it benificial to deviate from the norm. This was not one of them. There was no reason for me to play this hand as bad as I did.

I've offered my two cents on playing A-A in the past. What I've said is do not slow play them. I have also said that not to give your opponent a free card to beat you with. I did both here. The simple fact is that I played this hand bad almost from start and there was really no excuse for it.

I raised pre as I should have making it 4x (3x+1x for the limper in front of me). There is no way I should have checked the flop with two diamonds on the board. Maybe I could have gotten my man off his hand on the turn by repping the flush, but I doubt it. You can't see it, but quintas jams all in on the river, making it pretty obvious that he has either a K or the diamonds. That made it an easy fold, allowing me to get away from my hand pretty cheaply. Raising before the flop and folding on the river were the only things I did right in this hand.
 

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domeburglar

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Its always harder to play in the moment the way you think after the fact.. I've had so many times in the past where i talk myself into certain plays, or convince myself im being bluffed or that my opponent has the nuts, or just have a moment of idiocy and make a terrible play.. After the fact i usually look back and realize "What the **** was i thinking lol...

Poker is a marathon not a sprint so this one hand isnt important whats important is that you just keep it in ur mind next time and think... Do i really wanna have to post this bad play on CC again to teach myself another lesson lol
 
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Right on, domeburglar. That hand was from the CC $100 FR on Carbon this afternoon, which I won (little brag). I must have been dealt pocket Aces at least 8 more times and never did manage to get any value out of them. Every time I got them the table folded to my 3x raise. But oh well, it's better than having them cracked.
 
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Right on, domeburglar. That hand was from the CC $100 FR on Carbon this afternoon, which I won (little brag). I must have been dealt pocket Aces at least 8 more times and never did manage to get any value out of them. Every time I got them the table folded to my 3x raise. But oh well, it's better than having them cracked.

Congrats on the win! Yea it used to get me frustrated after getting no value from top pairs.. and it does affect me way more in tourneys because each hand is so much more important than i a cash game.. but i try to just think of it as one spot out of thousands
 
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How much did he get from you on the river? he re raised you all in , to make it obvious he had te AA beat. how soon in the tournament was this in? and like you said, you played them slow and fancy, things you shouldnt do, when he jams the river on a weak pot like that it makes it a n easy fold, and a simple sigh of getting your AA cracked.
 
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I was playing today in a NLH tourney within 2 hands I had lost 9,000 chips and out of game.1st hand I had pocket A's in SB position blinds @ 100/200 early positon calls late position calls,I push 1,000.BB folds,early position folds,late position pushes all in with 3,000.I called leaving me with about 2/3rds of my chip stack.He turns over 6/2 vs my A/A he hits trips on flop by the time the river hits he's got a full house.Very next hand (I admit I was still steaming)I was on the button with A/K suited UTG raises to 800 CO position calls,I re raise to 1,600.UTG pushes all in with pocket 8'sC/O calls all in with A/Q .I call with A/K .flop comes 69K turn Q river 8 UTG knocks us both out of game.I know I was tilting but my question is:Did I make a reasonable good call or should of I laid it down.The end result was I should of laid it down because it cost me my tourney life.
 
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How much did he get from you on the river? he re raised you all in , to make it obvious he had te AA beat. how soon in the tournament was this in? and like you said, you played them slow and fancy, things you shouldnt do, when he jams the river on a weak pot like that it makes it a n easy fold, and a simple sigh of getting your AA cracked.

He got zip out of me on the river. He was first to act. He shipped 2180 into a pot of 350, perhaps to make it look like a bluff. In fact, I considered that possibility for about five seconds before coming to my senses. This was fairly early in the tourney, way too early to for him to ship all of his chips to me on a bluff, although I can't count the number of times players have done exactly that. I hadn't been able to get anything going up to this point, often feeling that I had raised with the best hand, but been unable to connect with the flop. That was part of the reason I was so desperate to try to get some value out those Aces.
 
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Dude i feel your pain even more, this happened to me a hour ago, i eneded up still winning though just like you lmao :) FANCY play with AA can cost ya =\

Seat 1: VILLIAN (3,600 in chips)
Seat 2: NoMaSnIcEgUy (425 in chips)
Seat 3: lespaulfive (1,955 in chips)
Seat 7: YouFlopped (7,350 in chips)
Seat 9: HERO (6,680 in chips)
Seat 10: StompinDonks (2,692 in chips)
VILLIAN: posts ante of 20
NoMaSnIcEgUy: posts ante of 20
lespaulfive: posts ante of 20
YouFlopped: posts ante of 20
HERO: posts ante of 20
StompinDonks: posts ante of 20
StompinDonks: posts small blind 100
VILLIAN: posts big blind 200
Dealt to bpm48059 [Ah,Ad]
NoMaSnIcEgUy: folds
lespaulfive: folds
YouFlopped: folds
HERO: calls 200
StompinDonks: folds
VILLIAN: checks
*** FLOP *** [5h,3c,Ts]
villian: bets 200
HERO: raises to 600
VILLIAN: calls 400
*** TURN *** [Kh]
VILLIAN: checks
HERO: bets 775
VILLIAN: calls 775
*** RIVER *** [Qh]
VILLIAN: checks
HERO: bets 1,200
villian: is all in 2,005
HERO: calls 805
ImphoNEE: shows [Jh Th]
HERO: shows [Ah Ad]
***SHOW DOWN***
ImphoNEE wins 7,380 with Flush King high


not too good with showing hands yet. still learning!!
 
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Your ability to find your flaw and analyze your game though is what will ultimately make you successful. A lot of people will justify a loss like that with some crazy excuse and blame it on an unlucky river card - so just the fact you didn't do that is a major prop to you.
 
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Wrong! This is Merge. K turn K river is a forgone conclusion. You were right not to raise. KT calling OOP all day. Oh wait. You did raise. WTF didn't you CBET?

Come on man!
 
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