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Lots can be said about lack of a FR (5 players at a FR table), not playing with a full BI, etc. My question, however, is just about the basic thinking of how my betting was during this hand and if my thought process was correct.
It's an hand I played early on (about a week into playing for $ at AP). No reads about other players; my thinking was something like:
I have AA (yipee!)
Preflop: UTG I raise 3xBB and get 3 callers.
Flop: I make my set (more yipee). Blinds both check and since the board has 2 cards to a flush I raise a pot-sized as a strategy to make anyone calling with a draw to be calling without proper odds. Get one caller.
Turn: Puts 3 to a straight on the board along with the flush draw. Again I make a pot-sized bet and get called. At this point I'm worried that I'm beat. *
River: Flush draw hits. My fear of the flush get to me and I make a tiny bet. That small because I'm afraid that I'm beat. Don't know what I would have done if he'd raised/shoved. Probably folded.
Should I have bet much larger? Played the other streets differently?
What do you think, wise cash-game hand analysts?
* Of course, 8 cards left for a flush, I have the A and the K is on the board so their possible draw isn't even to the nuts.
Cereus Network - $0.02 NL - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3
Hero (UTG): $1.32
CO: $2.94
BTN: $2.08
SB: $2.06
BB: $0.40
SB posts SB $0.01, BB posts BB $0.02
Pre Flop: ($0.03) Hero has A♣ A♦
Hero raises to $0.06, CO calls $0.06, fold, SB calls $0.05, BB calls $0.04
Flop: ($0.24, 4 players) K♦ 3♦ A♥
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets $0.24, CO calls $0.24, fold, fold
Turn: ($0.72, 2 players) 2♥
Hero bets $0.72, CO calls $0.72
River: ($2.16, 2 players) Q♦
Hero bets $0.30, CO calls $0.30
It's an hand I played early on (about a week into playing for $ at AP). No reads about other players; my thinking was something like:
I have AA (yipee!)
Preflop: UTG I raise 3xBB and get 3 callers.
Flop: I make my set (more yipee). Blinds both check and since the board has 2 cards to a flush I raise a pot-sized as a strategy to make anyone calling with a draw to be calling without proper odds. Get one caller.
Turn: Puts 3 to a straight on the board along with the flush draw. Again I make a pot-sized bet and get called. At this point I'm worried that I'm beat. *
River: Flush draw hits. My fear of the flush get to me and I make a tiny bet. That small because I'm afraid that I'm beat. Don't know what I would have done if he'd raised/shoved. Probably folded.
Should I have bet much larger? Played the other streets differently?
What do you think, wise cash-game hand analysts?
* Of course, 8 cards left for a flush, I have the A and the K is on the board so their possible draw isn't even to the nuts.
Cereus Network - $0.02 NL - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3
Hero (UTG): $1.32
CO: $2.94
BTN: $2.08
SB: $2.06
BB: $0.40
SB posts SB $0.01, BB posts BB $0.02
Pre Flop: ($0.03) Hero has A♣ A♦
Hero raises to $0.06, CO calls $0.06, fold, SB calls $0.05, BB calls $0.04
Flop: ($0.24, 4 players) K♦ 3♦ A♥
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets $0.24, CO calls $0.24, fold, fold
Turn: ($0.72, 2 players) 2♥
Hero bets $0.72, CO calls $0.72
River: ($2.16, 2 players) Q♦
Hero bets $0.30, CO calls $0.30