Fold or call preflop?

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I was playing a .50/$1.00 NL and was dealt AQs on the button.

The table is pretty loose and my image is semi-tight. UTG comes out with a $14 raise - a big bet for him preflop (his stack is about $150). Folded around to the guy my right...who reraises to $28 (his stack is about $175 and this guy has been very aggressive in previous hands as well).

Do I call with my AQs or lay it down? My fear is that at least one of the other guys has AK or a high pocket pair (KK or QQ).





I ended up folding, but would have ended up with nut full house the way the hand played out...so it bugged me a little. Am I being too tight?

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Very standard fold here, probably even to the initial raiser.

You may well be ahead, but with a hand like AQs it's going to be pretty hard and pretty expensive to find out, and you're never feeling too comfortable about it postflop.

Don't bother worrying about what the board showed - that's insignificant. It's about how your hand matches up to your opponent's hand ranges.
 
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easy fold. don't even think about playing aq after two big raises. u might have won that one hand but if u keep playing that hand in the same way(as in calling 2 raises with aq), u'll lose a lot more in the future. keep in mind that the original raiser could rereraise after the reraise and ur call.
 
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it is a fold even in tournaments unless u're really, really short.
 
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Thanks

Feel better now. :)

Knew it was the right thing, but watching the other 2 guys go all-in against eachother after I folded stung a little.
 
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First of all.. as has already been said this is about as easy a fold as you can get. The only way you can even consider playing this hand is if they are both certifiably insane maniacs and even then I'm still folding. $14 from UTG here is an extremely large raise at .50/1 too....

Knew it was the right thing, but watching the other 2 guys go all-in against eachother after I folded stung a little.

Why did it sting? Did they both flip inferior cards? AQ is pretty vulnerable especially 3-way and it is very very rare for AQ to even be second best in a preflop raise war like that.

You did the right thing folding, don't worry about what they had but do make a note of it!
 
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The first guy was playing A-X...I had him outkicked with my queen even if I don't hit the full house. The other guy was overbetting low suited connectors....so if anything I had a bad read on them I guess.

Another question...

Do you ever call/reraise to an earlier raise with this hand on the button? If so, how much of a raise do you take? I think I would have considered a call on a 3BB or 4BB bet...is this a bad play?
 
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Pretty easy laydown for me. You have a raise then a reraise if you call it's very possible to see the intial raiser go all in.
 
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Did you happen to note the 2 idiot's screen names? 14bb to open with Ax and a min reraise with low SCs??? These are guys I want to play against.
 
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it's a good fold, but in poker you shouldn't be afraid to gamble. the bigger the risk the bigger the pay out
 
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