nl$50 FR, AA vs flop action.

Preflop raise is a little on the small size, the bb had been open shoving over lp raises lots and i was trying to encourage it. Apart from that, UTG was playing a solid 14/5/0 game over 50 or so hands, MP3 was the table fish plaing at 42/20/6 or something silly.

I assume we take this like as a set almost always ?


poker stars, $0.25/$0.50 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 9 Players
Hand History Converter by Stoxpoker

BB: $10 (20 bb)
UTG: $10 (20 bb)
UTG+1: $70 (140 bb)
MP1: $23.30 (46.6 bb)
MP2: $60.25 (120.5 bb)
MP3: $30.10 (60.2 bb)
CO: $22.65 (45.3 bb)
Hero (BTN): $50 (100 bb)
SB: $50 (100 bb)

Pre-Flop: Hero is BTN with A A
UTG folds, UTG+1 calls $0.50, MP1 folds, MP2 calls $0.50, MP3 calls $0.50, CO folds, Hero raises to $2.50, 2 folds, UTG+1 calls $2, MP2 folds, MP3 calls $2

Flop: ($8.75) 7 8 K (3 players)
UTG+1 checks, MP3 bets $2.50, Hero raises to $8, UTG+1 raises to $67.50 and is all-in, MP3 folds, Hero ????

It's a hard fold but a set is likely. I doubt he'll reraise all in on a K, Q or K, J.

Umm i'd say so yeah. Probably Villain figured you were going to ship it. What were your stats for this game? Did villain see you calling loosely at all figuring you'd call? The only thing that fathoms me is why shove THAT much! Surely villain wants action, or is he bricking it cuz of the possible draw? This line has confused me!

Yeah from that player it's probably a set. They don't crai top pair hands.

edit: on second glance with the dynamics of the donk donking, it's possible he could be trying to just take the pot down with KQ protecting against the draws, but I seriously doubt it.

Raise way more pf - even if you've got a maniac yet to act, the difference to him between $4 and $2.50 isn't much. He's still shoving his AJ or whatever.

1. Vomit
2. Fold

This is seriously 77/88 pretty much every time. I don't really see this guy CRAI on a cold 3bet with AK. Limp-call from EP by a fairly tight player is almost always a small PP. I also agree with Chuck that you should be opening for more here. There's 3 limpers before you so I'd bump it to at least $3.50, maybe more.

Yeah just a bad situation I think. It's not the kind of situation where you know you are ahead by any means or even at a coinflip. From this guy I think the bottom of his range suggests 9c Tc with a set most likely his holding.

What was your image to him? If you were aggro, even a tight player could pick this as a spot to semi-bluff shove a FD or he might try a dumb play like tilt-shoving TPTK. Wouldn't a solid player with a set want to just 4-bet to like $25-$30 or something?

Of course, folding would be fine and would be the safest move here. But I wouldn't have a problem with calling, either.

Could a 14/5 be limping AK and playing it this way?? If he's not limping AK, then the only hand that does this that you beat is T9c so I just fold this.