AA 50 NL

villian just got to the table, no reads.

pokerstars Game #7185579671: Hold'em No Limit ($0.25/$0.50) - 2006/11/26 - 15:35:10 (ET)
Table 'Walpurga II' 6-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: JBalkenende ($61.40 in chips)
Seat 2: NSGOLD ($50.30 in chips)
Seat 3: Tenven ($50.95 in chips)
Seat 4: mj23lbj111 ($116.70 in chips)
Seat 5: bxb1552 ($90.95 in chips)
Seat 6: wirewraps ($28.40 in chips)
bxb1552: posts small blind $0.25
wirewraps: posts big blind $0.50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to mj23lbj111 [As Ac]
JBalkenende: folds
NSGOLD: raises $1.50 to $2
Tenven: folds
mj23lbj111: raises $3 to $5
bxb1552: folds
wirewraps: folds
NSGOLD: calls $3
*** FLOP *** [Ts 4h 5h]
NSGOLD: bets $10
mj23lbj111: raises $101.70 to $111.70 and is all-in


yay or nay?

nay

Pre-flop $5,

Post-flop $111.70 (when the hand has weakened)

Not a fan of that at all. The only call you're getting (or should be getting by any half decent player) is a call which is beating you.



(ps, doesnt mean that some donk wont ever call with AT/JJ/QQ/KK, completely disregarding your pre-flop reraise, but hey )

Eh pretty standard, pot is $20 and villain only has $35 behind, any other raise commits you, may as well pooooosh. If villain has hit a huge hand surely he's checking here seeing as you repopped preflop - his flop lead smells of something like AT/mid pp/flush draw that wants to see where it stands.

What, he only had $50.30, why didnt you say

On a serious note, chucking some chips into a hit flop not that bad for inducing some action over the top of you, especially after the flagged overcards from pre-flop action.... so assuming hes stacked up, I'm not a fan

It's ok - you're almost certainly ahead, but I think there are better ways to get value out of your hand, e.g. raise to $25 or $30 rather than all-in. Not such a bad spot for slow-playing either.

I agree with Bombjack. Try and get more value out of a hand that is dealt to you once in 220 hands. Bet about the pot or maybe a bit less.

There's no real difference between raising pot and pushing here, seeing as if you raise pot you leave villain with $15 behind if he calls and obviously no fold equity if he comes over the top on the flop or calls and pushes the turn for $15 into a $70 pot.

What hands that we're beating is villain folding to a push but calling/pushing to a pot raise?

dorkus's reasoning was exactly my thoughts when i pushed. i guess i wasnt going to get away from this hand no matter what, i lost to his set of fives. its ok though, i left the table with 5 buyins

Chalk up another vote for the push. And not just because DM said ;-)

I sort of agree with a push, but not from my side only his. From a psychological perspective, pushing all in is huge and unless he has something big, he folds to the huge push. While it may not seem like a big difference, my thought is to re-raise enough to put him all in. Then all he sees is the bet and not an all in from you. People will sub-conciously call this bet more often, and I find it to work in my favor in most cases.