-Phil Ivey27
Visionary
Silver Level
Here is a situation where I am playing rush poker and get a re-raise pre-flop against my pocket aces. This is rush therefore no read but generally a re-raise in this situation, especially in rush poker, signifies a very big hand.
The decision is obviously re-raise the villain back or just call. I chose to just call due to the fact that if I re-raise again it looks like Aces big time, therefore he would muck practically all hands, and I was really trying to trap him and take everything on a dry flop. At the same time it is possible he had KK and would have committed all his chips pre-flop as it is extremely hard to fold KK pre-flop.
The flop came 9 7 5 with two hearts so due to this draw filled board, although none of his hand range scares me here, I check raised him all-in and he very quickly folded which made me think he most likely held AK and I made a profit of $2.20.
How would you have played this?
The decision is obviously re-raise the villain back or just call. I chose to just call due to the fact that if I re-raise again it looks like Aces big time, therefore he would muck practically all hands, and I was really trying to trap him and take everything on a dry flop. At the same time it is possible he had KK and would have committed all his chips pre-flop as it is extremely hard to fold KK pre-flop.
The flop came 9 7 5 with two hearts so due to this draw filled board, although none of his hand range scares me here, I check raised him all-in and he very quickly folded which made me think he most likely held AK and I made a profit of $2.20.
How would you have played this?