Let's play Does He Have Aces!

<wild applause as I run onto the stage and heartily shake hands with Bob>


Villain is 25/15/.4, but I only have 86 hands with him. (I'm the BB in Seat 2 with KK).

My image, I suppose, is TAG and I'm runnnig at this point something like 16/14/3

full tilt poker Game #9341143560: Table Pendleton - $0.10/$0.25 - No Limit Hold'em - 19:49:54 ET - 2008/12/05
Seat 1: BeaveArony ($9.30), is sitting out
Seat 2: jim1098 ($29.10)
Seat 3: robinOwhy ($11.75)
Seat 4: 1little2little ($7.25)
Seat 5: shotstyle ($5)
Seat 6: Teutatis ($31.70)
Seat 7: astrophysicist ($5.15)
Seat 8: madbadgeralum5 ($69.20)
Seat 9: VA Cowboys ($9.60)
jim1098 posts the small blind of $0.10
robinOwhy posts the big blind of $0.25
The button is in seat #9
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to jim1098 [Kc Kh]
BeaveArony has returned
1little2little folds
BeaveArony stands up
shotstyle folds
Teutatis calls $0.25
astrophysicist folds
madbadgeralum5 raises to $1
VA Cowboys folds
Poon Schwaggler sits down
jim1098 has 15 seconds left to act
jim1098 raises to $3.50
Poon Schwaggler adds $10
robinOwhy folds
Teutatis has 15 seconds left to act
Teutatis folds
madbadgeralum5 raises to $30
jim1098 has 15 seconds left to act
jim1098 ??

His wild overbet screams "I HAVE ACES", I think.

What did I do?

1 of 2 things.

shove. sigh. spike your king. fist pump

shove. sigh. reload

scragbag said:

1 of 2 things.

shove. sigh. spike your king. fist pump

*snip*

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I instacalled. I'm pretty inexperienced, but I believe that's the correct call always.

jim1098 calls $25.60, and is all in
madbadgeralum5 shows [Ah Kd]
jim1098 shows [Kc Kh]
Uncalled bet of $0.90 returned to madbadgeralum5
*** FLOP *** [Qc 5s 7c]
*** TURN *** [Qc 5s 7c] [9s]
*** RIVER *** [Qc 5s 7c 9s] [3d]
madbadgeralum5 shows Ace King high
jim1098 shows a pair of Kings
jim1098 wins the pot ($55.80) with a pair of Kings
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $58.70 | Rake $2.90
Board: [Qc 5s 7c 9s 3d]
Seat 1: BeaveArony is sitting out
Seat 2: jim1098 (small blind) showed [Kc Kh] and won ($55.80) with a pair of Kings
Seat 3: robinOwhy (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 4: 1little2little didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: shotstyle didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: Teutatis folded before the Flop
Seat 7: astrophysicist didn't bet (folded)
Seat 8: madbadgeralum5 showed [Ah Kd] and lost with Ace King high
Seat 9: VA Cowboys (button) didn't bet (folded)


Kind of an absurd bet with AK, don't you think?

scragbag said:

1 of 2 things.

shove. sigh. spike your king. fist pump

shove. sigh. reload

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oorororooroorrrrrrrr!!!

now this sounds crazy but you could do something wild and

fist pump, snap call, ship teh monies

Was gonna guess AK but you gave rsults too quicky The reason this is ak a lot of the time, is most people overbet shove with it to maximize fold equity from pairs lower than kings. Some people will play aces this way too, but I find thier more likely to make a smaller raise to try and get you potstuck, or call in position, and shove over your flop bet, if your 100+ deep that is.

At $25NL I find people will stack with the top four hands, A/K, Q/Q, K/K, and A/A. Substantially fewer will stack with A/K or Q/Q, but the fact that A/K comes up fairy often, some people spew and shove with even less (8/8 and stuff) makes it a call.

I'd probably be more afraid if made it $7 to go, as he'd be begging for a call or re-raise. You made a good call. Without a good read on him, it's a call every time.

1. take out your penis
2. pretending it is a microphone, yell "I'M READY FOR THE MONEY" into the tip
3. press go all-in
4. close your eyes
5. slowly massage your testicles for the next 4 seconds
6. look up and smile because you have more money than you had before!

vanquish said:

1. take out your penis
2. pretending it is a microphone, yell "I'M READY FOR THE MONEY" into the tip
3. press go all-in
4. close your eyes
5. slowly massage your testicles for the next 4 seconds
6. look up and smile because you have more money than you had before!

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i figured that was the standard line to take, but i did this once in a casino and they kicked me out also the guy hit his A wtf

vanquish said:

1. take out your penis
2. pretending it is a microphone, yell "I'M READY FOR THE MONEY" into the tip
3. press go all-in
4. close your eyes
5. slowly massage your testicles for the next 4 seconds
6. look up and smile because you have more money than you had before!

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Ahhhhhh . . . no wonder why it never works for me, I was skipping a step. Keep forgetting to massage my testicles. Thanks for the tip.

switch0723 said:

oorororooroorrrrrrrr!!!

now this sounds crazy but you could do something wild and

fist pump, snap call, ship teh monies

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When i opened this thread to check the posts, i soon realised I hadn't actually considered we should be the outright winners of the pot.

Had a bit of a bad day yesterday an KK was not my best friend

combuboom said:

i figured that was the standard line to take, but i did this once in a casino and they kicked me out also the guy hit his A wtf

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you obv did it wrong

Written as if I were first responder;

Your outrageous over bet looks as much like a small pair steal as anything else. Big stack could almost validly make his challenge with anything bigger than 88. He's the big stack after all, and can bully at will.

You can be sure he would call you out like this with anything above JJ.

I think you called, and it held up!

Now I will read all the truly valid replies.

dj11 said:

He's the big stack after all, and can bully at will.

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I know you play mostly tourneys where it's more applicable, but this even holds for tourneys too. Once everyone else folds, the stack size of the big stack doesn't matter. If it's HU between someone with 20 BBs and someone with 30,000,000 BBs, the 20 is all that matters, because that's the most either can win and it's the most that'll go into the pot.